For those who remember older episodes of Casualty tv show on UK GOLD, which inspired the film, carries an added edge of realism. The setting - ordinary people pregnant Jenny, with boyfriend issues and her alchoholic dad trying to get to hospital during her labour, with audience knowing something bad is coming as they work out their issues, bad things happen then they realise there are bigger things to worry about and everyone gets along in the end.
The Hollywood view of England has been too long focused on the East End gangster movies- Snatch, Long Good Friday, Lock, Stock... where real movies are on ordinary people. This was a good attempt by DB Morgan as a feature debut, so hopefully a learnign experience for his next productions.
Interesting to note that several comments in the reviews of this superlative film concerned the unintelligible accent of Frank Jakeman. I should point out that viewers in the UK (and Holland and most Scandinavian countries) regularly enjoy American films without the aid of subtitles, so how come you find it so hard to understand us? :) We didn't complain that the cast of Donnie Brasco or Goodfellas had New York accents, so why complain that English men have English Accents.