Synopsis
The shy son of an aging comedienne tries to find a balance between his demanding home life, his new girlfriend, and his mother's second chance at fame.
2007 Directed by Cherie Nowlan
The shy son of an aging comedienne tries to find a balance between his demanding home life, his new girlfriend, and his mother's second chance at fame.
Introducing the Dwights, Il matrimonio è un affare di famiglia
Blethyn's raunch act goes Australia
Blethyn has that ability to make everyone else on screen utterly vanish around her. Here, already into her 60s, she seems to have stumbled into a South Sydney variant of High Tide, playing a Jan Adele-esque role of innuendo-laden club entertaining with Frankie J. Holden as her divorced husband. She has two sons, one of whom is a post-EdgerWorthingTon-type lead minus their 'charisma'. His shyness and his mother's protectiveness drives prospective flame Emma Booth up the wall (an actress who continues to impress today but may have been overlooked then as yet another period blonde in a decade loaded with them, despite winning the AFI Best Supporting Actress for this). Early on though, her and…