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Driving Lessons (2006)

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Country: GB/US
Technical: DeLuxe 98m
Director: Jeremy Brock
Cast: Julie Walters, Rupert Grint, Laura Linney, Nicholas Farrell

Synopsis:

A painfully shy and maternally repressed vicar's son takes a job as companion/odd job man to a retired actress, and there begins a mutually beneficial friendship as she teaches him to cut loose of the shackle-like apron strings.

Review:

We've been here before and though the atmosphere of the clergyman's family is splendidly caught, it is burdened with the eccentricity of the lodger-cum-deus ex machina. Walters, meanwhile, injects some nicely contrasted verve and profanity but the whole thing runs out of energy after the shambolic return from Edinburgh. Linney contributes a truly terrifying performance which precludes sympathy and belongs in the Mrs Robinson gallery of suburban grotesques.

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Country: GB/US
Technical: DeLuxe 98m
Director: Jeremy Brock
Cast: Julie Walters, Rupert Grint, Laura Linney, Nicholas Farrell

Synopsis:

A painfully shy and maternally repressed vicar's son takes a job as companion/odd job man to a retired actress, and there begins a mutually beneficial friendship as she teaches him to cut loose of the shackle-like apron strings.

Review:

We've been here before and though the atmosphere of the clergyman's family is splendidly caught, it is burdened with the eccentricity of the lodger-cum-deus ex machina. Walters, meanwhile, injects some nicely contrasted verve and profanity but the whole thing runs out of energy after the shambolic return from Edinburgh. Linney contributes a truly terrifying performance which precludes sympathy and belongs in the Mrs Robinson gallery of suburban grotesques.


Country: GB/US
Technical: DeLuxe 98m
Director: Jeremy Brock
Cast: Julie Walters, Rupert Grint, Laura Linney, Nicholas Farrell

Synopsis:

A painfully shy and maternally repressed vicar's son takes a job as companion/odd job man to a retired actress, and there begins a mutually beneficial friendship as she teaches him to cut loose of the shackle-like apron strings.

Review:

We've been here before and though the atmosphere of the clergyman's family is splendidly caught, it is burdened with the eccentricity of the lodger-cum-deus ex machina. Walters, meanwhile, injects some nicely contrasted verve and profanity but the whole thing runs out of energy after the shambolic return from Edinburgh. Linney contributes a truly terrifying performance which precludes sympathy and belongs in the Mrs Robinson gallery of suburban grotesques.

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