Clubland (Introducing the Dwights)

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Jeannie Dwight (Blethyn) is a cook, loving mother, divorcee, and on the road to a comeback on the club comedy circuit. Her ex-husband John is staging a comeback of his own, hoping to get his life back to the glory days when he was number one on the country music charts. All three weeks of them. In 1975.

With parents like these and a disabled brother, it is hardly surprising that life’s not always smooth sailing for 21-year-old Tim who is shy, lives at home, and is a disaster with women. When the beautiful and feisty Jill walks into Tim’s life things seem to be looking up. But there is another woman in Tim’s life, one who will stand between him and the perfect romance… his mother.

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Rated: M, Sex Scenes & Offensive Language
Running Time: 1:45
Genre: Comedy
Directed by: Cherie Nowlan (feature debut)
Starring: Brenda Blethyn, Khan Chittenden, Emma Booth, Rebecca Gibney, Richard Wilson, Russell Dykstra

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Rating: 4 A lot of people will like this film....
by Michael
... and for good reason, its very good. Very white, very lower class austalian, very emotional and very flawed characters living a very real struggle. Not quite the perfect five and not a movie for those who would rather see Zoolander than Little Miss Sunshine but all and all, its very good.

Press Reviews:

Rating: 3 BBC

Brenda Blethyn plays a comedienne juggling family and an attempted comeback in Australian comedy Clubland. Part comedy-of-embarrassment, part coming-of-age drama, it shifts focus from English Jean (Blethyn) to Aussie-raised teenaged son Tim and his nervous relationship with the sexually confident Jill. Mother and son clash to amusing and poignant effect, although the dialogue's not as smart or funny as it thinks it is. In the hands of Mike Leigh, this could be a masterpiece, as it is, it's forgettable fun...
Rating: 3 NZ Herald [Francesca Rudkin]

An odd, funny little film filled with a strange mix of everyday reality and melodrama...
San Fransisco Chronicle

Among the many strengths of the sweetly touching Introducing the Dwights, a small gem from Australia unearthed at the Sundance Film Festival, is that Jean never becomes Godzilla...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Director Cherie Nowlan creates vivid personalities for the entire family and exposes the raw nerves of the biting humor...
The New York Times

A funny-sad, icky-sweet comedy of family dysfunction...

Release date: January 10th 2008.

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