This snuck into London this week virtually unheralded and playing at only one cinema. By chance I stumbled on a paragraph that mentioned the star was Brenda Blethyn so on that basis I checked it out. It's yet another of those 'indie' productions that is fine to see once but probably won't stand repeat viewings. Blethyn plays a stand-up comedian who apparently made a minor name for herself in seventies Britain prior to emigrating and is now trying to reestablish herself in Sydney. For good measure she is divorced - from a Country singer who moonlights as a Security Guard, just as Blethyn moonlights as a canteen worker - and struggling to retain control of her two sons, one of whom is brain-damaged and the other a virgin. One of the problems is that the film can't decide whether to concentrate on Blethyn's attempts to make a living on the club scene, though the material that we actually hear - incredibly and unbelievably credited to Jo Brand - makes this highly unlikely, or the burgeoning love affair between the non brain-damaged son and a new girlfriend, played well by Emma Booth. Basically this one has 'feelgood' written all over it and it that's what you like then you'll like Clubland aka Introducing The Dwights.
Review of Introducing the Dwights
