Average Rating: 4.9/10
Reviews Counted: 27
Fresh: 8 | Rotten: 19
An exercise in strained whimsy and saccharine sentiment.
Average Rating: 4.8/10
Critic Reviews: 9
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 7
An exercise in strained whimsy and saccharine sentiment.
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Average Rating: 3.8/5
User Ratings: 1,463
A Welsh woman is belatedly forced to come out of her shell when poor fortune befalls her family and friends in this kitchen-sink comedy. Annie Mary (Rachel Griffiths) is a woman in her early thirties who seems never to have finished growing up; she still lives at home with her widowed father Jack (Jonathan Pryce), hasn't established much of a life of her own, and can't get her relationship with her boyfriend Colin (Rhys Miles Thomas) to go anywhere. Jack, an enthusiastic ladies' man with a
Jan 1, 2001 Wide
Mar 9, 2004
Empire Pictures
All Critics (34) | Top Critics (11) | Fresh (8) | Rotten (19) | DVD (4)
The movie would seem less of a trifle if Ms. Sugarman followed through on her defiance of the saccharine.
A bit too eager to please.
It is not the first time that director Sara Sugarman stoops to having characters drop their pants for laughs and not the last time she fails to provoke them.
Odd and weird.
Very Annie-Mary is familiar but winningly funny and good-hearted.
Yet another entry in the sentimental oh-those-wacky-Brits genre that was ushered in by The Full Monty and is still straining to produce another smash hit.
Amateurish, ineptly written, poorly acted and crudely directed.
If the predictability of bland comfort food appeals to you, then the film is a pleasant enough dish.
A frustrating combination of strained humor and heavy-handed sentimentality.
So exaggerated and broad that it comes off as annoying rather than charming.
By the end, I was looking for something hard with which to bludgeon myself unconscious.
Beware the quirky Brit-com. They can and will turn on a dime from oddly humorous to tediously sentimental.
Even Griffiths can't rescue this porridge of a picture.
Hilarious!
December 16, 2007Super Reviewer
Quirky and delightful. A real joy.
March 25, 2007Super Reviewer
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