Cast overview: | |||
Karen Gillan | ... | Jane Lockhart | |
Stanley Weber | ... | Tom Duval | |
Iain De Caestecker | ... | Roddy | |
Gary Lewis | ... | Benny Lockhart (Dad) | |
Henry Ian Cusick | ... | Willie Scott | |
Freya Mavor | ... | Nicola Ball | |
Kate Dickie | ... | Anna Le Fevre | |
Amy Manson | ... | Darsie | |
Niall Greig Fulton | ... | Team Member 1 | |
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Bill Barclay | ... | Team Member 2 |
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Cora Bisset | ... | Bookshop Owner (as Cora Bissett) |
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Louise Goodall | ... | Doctor Klinsch |
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John Bett | ... | Mr. McLeish |
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Callum Cuthbertson | ... | Quiz Master |
When a struggling publisher discovers his only successful author is blocked he knows he has to unblock her or he's finished. With her newfound success, she's become too damn happy and she can't write when she's happy.The only trouble is, the worse he makes her feel, the more he realises he's in love with her. Written by Anonymous
I could simply dismiss this movie as a formulaic rom-com that is neither particularly romantic nor comic, but that wouldn't really get into the problem with this movie. The problem is it feels phony from beginning to end. Everything about it is wrong. The main character dresses quirky, but there's no sense that this is who she is, or that she has a purpose in her choice of clothes. Instead, you feel someone on the movie just decided to dress her that way. The love interests actions are at best I-Love-Lucy-level nonsense at worst borderline sociopathic. It's also an absurdly stupid premise, and the movie knows it's a stupid premise and makes that clear, yet goes with it anyway.
Every turn in the plot feels like it's there not because it is a natural outcome of what came before but simply because the writer wanted to create a situation.
The performances are good. The movie looks good. And the movie effectively hits the basic rom-com pressure points. But its soulless and stupid, and unerringly goes for the trite moments and the fake emotions.
I did like the main characters alter-ego. She was a good actress and was actually more convincing than the supposed real people in the film. But overall this was not just dull, but downright objectionable.