The MM - "The technique of giving the audience a personal look at a quirky English village is once again successful mainly due to the outstanding performance of Rachel Griffiths. Rachel (who is excellent by the way in the HBO original series Six Feet Under although the character she plays is a little disturbing. Anyway she is really good and if you haven't seen SFU yet you should make a point of heading over to somebody's house that has HBO so you can watch it because it is quite excellent and worlds better than anything you would see on network TV not to mention that they have top notch actors and can show nudity and use cuss words and all that. That's a big part of the problem with TV nowadays is that they are held to these rules that the rest of society doesn't have to adhere to. When are we going to come out of the stone age and lessen the restrictions on what can be shown on TV like most other countries in the world. I just don't understand why we are still stuck with these archaic.... Well I better get back to the review because the Movie Man gets upset when comments are thrown in to the middle of a review but not as upset evidently as we get when the Movie Man starts directing editorial policy here at the paper so actually I had some comments on the use of steroids in major league baseball that I will throw in to the next review I'm forced to type at this ungodly hour just so that I might protest the fact that any normal person would just submit the review electronically but we're talking about a guy who is having trouble figuring out how to plug in an answering machine. Anyway, back to the review. When we left off he was saying that....) RG plays a mentally challenged 30 something spinster who still lives at home with her overbearing father. After a series of failures though her intentions are good, Rachel gets a chance for redemption when she is asked to help a group of local ladies perform at a talent show with the money offered for first place to be used to send Rachel's terminally ill friend to Disneyland. The films ending is fairly predictable since the story is so sympathetic to the character, however the townspeople are charming, the talent show scene is side splitting and Rachel Griffiths is excellent.
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