Dysfunctional-family fireworks light up Cherie Nowlan and Keith Thompson's dark comedy about (s)mother love and the irresistible lure of the spotlight.
Up-and-coming stand-up comic Jean Dwight (Brenda Blethyn) was carving her niche as a protofeminist comedienne, a sort of English Phyllis Diller with a scorched-earth line in man-bashing. But after marrying Australian rocker John (Frankie J. Holden), whose one-hit career peaked with a cover of Tina Turner's "Nutbush City Limits," and moving with him to Sydney, Jeannie's ambitions were put on hold. Two children and a divorce later, she works days at a cafeteria and plays bottom-of-the-barrel venues at night, do...
Released:
2007
Rated:
R
Length:
109 mins