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It’s not exactly a comedy that would make you laugh from beginning to the end. Especially as, in a true English fashion, it makes fun of something a normal person probably wouldn’t. However, the film still breathes the pleasant atmosphere of English countryside, gentle yet sincere cynicism and has such a pleasant positive vibe to it that you simply cannot be angry at it. (2019.11.28)

Don't be fooled! This is no comedy, the only funny thing about it - and cynically so - is that someone had the gall to label this a comedy. Although this movie exudes a relaxed atmosphere that puts a smile on your face, when you realize what you are actually watching, your amusement passes. If you focus on the content and not on the portrayal, you realize you are watching a drama and a quite tragic story of a family and especially their teenage daughter. Eighties music everywhere, the teenage girl should be wondering if the boy is still just her friend or her lover, but instead she has to deal with death and her mother's mental illness and get over the fact that everything in the family has been revolving around her mother's mental health for years. But still, the movie doesn’t seem altogether hopeless, and in the end it offers a way out of the oppressive situation. And while the solution is rather too fairytale (not every trucker you hitch a ride with is so helpful and nice), it doesn't fall into the boring clichéd happy ending with the family getting back together. Because, even if it did, it's a different kind of "together" than is typical in an American movie. IN A NUTSHELL with spoiler: How to never get to see your favorite singer live in concert. (2023.05.15)