Very disappointing movie experience for someone who was so looking forward to seeing this. Unauthentic character portrayals all round with not one single sympathetic character to be found. Badly rehashed writing job of what was surely brilliant in its original form. What a sad shame for Ealing Studios to have this stain against its name. SHAME on one of my favourite actresses Kristin Scott Thomas for having anything to do with this rubbish, even if she is the least awful thing in it. Colin Firth, an equally class act, should similarly stop slumming it in some of these more recent bombs he's done, as if keeping himself amused in Pantomime. When I stood up to walk out of the cinema after the first 50 minutes, the friend I was with was fast asleep. The writer/director would be well advised to stick with contemporary Aussie drag queen capers and avoid trying to play with great talents like Noel Coward. This is not even vaguely how the English class it muses about is or ever truly was, but is, rather, a short-sighted guess from a non-English director. I want my money back.