VERY ANNIE MARY

Released by AV Channel. Out now to Rent

Starring: Rachel Griffith, Jonathan Pryce, Ioan Gruffudd, Matthew Rhys, Kenneth Griffith, Ruth Madoc 

With a lead role from our own Rachel Griffiths, Very Annie Mary, set in a small Welsh valley town has a very quirky flavour.
Written and directed by former actress Sara Sugarman the plot sees Annie Mary (Griffiths) aged 33 suffering a very big case of arrested development, her father Jack (Jonathan Pryce) is the local baker and amateur opera singer, there are some funny scenes with Jack on his rounds with a loud speaker attached to the top of his van as practices his Pavarotti and keeps the locals entertained. 
The story only really picks up a gear around the mid way point when Jack has a stroke and Annie begins to develop a bit of an independent streak. There's also a subplot involving Annie's singing abilities (she could have been a great opera singer but gave it up when her mother died) and the dying wish of her terminally ill best friend Bethan - this involves the entire village 
trying to raise money for a trip to Disneyland for her, only for Annie to lose it all on a horse race and so literally has to sing for someone else's supper.
Full of eccentric characters with good turns from Ioan Gruffudd and Matthew Rhys as gay couple Hob and Nob you do get the feeling that the movie is trying a little too hard. Patchy then but engaging enough in it's way. 

 

                 
 

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