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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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