Gina is a young mother who undermines her efforts to be an ideal mother and wife but that will cause her a problem later. Due to the deterioration of her mental health, she developed a strange obsession with the local weatherman, resulting in her being transferred to a psychiatric hospital near the house. Over the years, her daughter Alice has been struggling to deal with her mother, who is constantly being treated, but perhaps there will be chaos that divides the family and turns it into a comedy.
1970, Bolton, Lancashire, England, UK
20 October 1967, Middlesbrough, England, UK
10 May 1970, Hong Kong
October 7, 1971 in Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, UK
25 June 1981, Epworth, North Lincolnshire, England, UK
7 October 1971, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, UK
23 July 1957, Hastings, East Sussex, England, UK
11 January 1982, Cheshire, England, UK
3 June 1957, Barnet, Hertfordshire, England, UK
26 September 1939, Bispham, Blackpool, England, UK
22 February 1933, Blackgang, Isle of Wight, England, UK
14 January 1964, York, England, UK
7 October 1978, Rochford, Essex, England, UK
30 December 1948, Northhampton, England, UK
July 06, 2018
It is a bit rough around the edges at times, with some pretty broad dramatic effects, but the narrative motor keeps humming and the sheer force of sympathy drives it along.
July 05, 2018
An appealing, bittersweetly funny tale of a Morrissey-mad teenage girl whose life is regularly derailed by her mother's worsening mental state.
July 09, 2018
Keith English's film of Jo Brand's novel has a typical Brit-flick kind of hokiness, and this limits the poignancy of the heroine's relationship with her mother.
July 04, 2018
The way it interrogates and eventually embraces an unconventional female character and upends assumptions regarding mental illness is something to be celebrated.
July 09, 2018
Hunt is hugely watchable in the central role and Brand, adapting from her own novel, should be congratulated for stubbornly avoiding narrative convention.
