Unlike most of the other people posting comments here, I really thought this film was brilliant. It's the kind of excruciating, cruel comedy which many people hate but which when it is done well can be brilliant, and I think it IS done well here, although possibly not as well as it is done in Confetti (which has many of the same cast members in it). Anyone who has been to the Edinburgh festival and had a god-awful miserable time (surely more people than admit to it) will recognise the experiences of these various characters and sympathise with their predicaments...... Well, that's all I have to say about the movie, but since IMDb seems keen to encourage verbosity on here I will just respond to the various nonsense comments on the subject of Lottery Funding. It's very easy to slag off a film you don't like and then start crowing on about the taxpayers money that has been wasted on it, but you should remember that 1) it's not taxpayers money, 2) film making is a high-risk business - for every big success there are many many flops, and if it was possible to predict what is going to be successful BEFORE the release of the film, then we'd ALL be in the business and all be millionaires, 3) I'd rather have a film industry which produces some box office flops and some hits, than have NO FILM INDUSTRY AT ALL which is the alternative. There. Is that ten lines yet ed?
