Very Annie Mary

Very Annie Mary
Directed by Sara Sugarman
Produced by Graham Broadbent
Damian Jones
Written by Sara Sugarman
Starring Rachel Griffiths
Jonathan Pryce
Ioan Gruffudd
Matthew Rhys
Joanna Page
Music by Stephen Warbeck
Cinematography Barry Ackroyd[1]
Edited by Robin Sales
Distributed by FilmFour
Release date
  • 25 May 2001 (2001-05-25)
Running time
 104 minutes[1]
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Box office $46,352

Very Annie Mary is a 2001 comedy film and musical from Wales, written and directed by Sara Sugarman and starring Rachel Griffiths and Jonathan Pryce. It is a coming-of-age tale, set in south Wales, about a woman in her 30s who lives with her verbally abusive father. It was filmed on location in Bridgend and at Workingman's Institute and Memorial Hall, Newbridge, Wales.

Synopsis

After her father suffers a stroke, a woman is forced to take care of him but uses the circumstances to emancipate herself and find the courage to sing once again.

Cast

Minor roles in the film are played by Ray Gravell, Mary Hopkin and Ruth Jones, among others.

Music

The film features the following songs:[1]

Production

The film was shot in the middle of 1999, with filming taking place in the Garw Valley in Bridgend, Wales, posing as the fictional village of "Ogw" (a play on the name of the Ogmore Valley's Welsh name of Ogwr). It was scheduled to be presented at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival and the Dinard Festival of British Cinema but failed to show at either event.[2]

Reception

On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 34%, based on 29 reviews, and an average rating of 5/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "An exercise in strained whimsy and saccharine sentiment."[3] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 33 out of 100, based on 10 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".[4]

Variety magazine called it a "half-klutzy, half-engaging eccentric comedy...bolstered by good turns from leads Rachel Griffiths and Jonathan Pryce" but "falling prey to a general disorganization in tone and structure."[2] The Guardian called it "a broad comedy with a very derivative Monty-ish plot, but likeable and good-natured."[5] The New York Times called the film "alternately mushy and farcical" with an "undertone of satire" that keeps the film from "choking on its own cuteness"; it "churns up a few genuinely funny bits" including a climax "that is almost worth waiting for."[6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Very Annie Mary (2001)". BFI Film & TV Database. British Film Institute. Retrieved April 11, 2018.
  2. 1 2 Elley, Derek (March 31, 2001). "Very Annie-Mary". Variety. Penske Business Media. Retrieved April 11, 2018.
  3. ↑ "Very Annie Mary (2001)". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Retrieved April 11, 2018.
  4. ↑ "Very Annie Mary Reviews". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved April 11, 2018.
  5. ↑ Bradshaw, Peter (May 25, 2001). "Very Annie Mary". The Guardian. Guardian News and Media. Retrieved April 11, 2018.
  6. ↑ Holden, Stephen (March 29, 2002). "FILM IN REVIEW; 'Very Annie Mary'". The New York Times. The New York Times Company. Retrieved April 11, 2018.
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