AN INTRODUCTION WORTH ACCEPTING
INTRODUCING THE DWIGHTS |
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| In Theatres: | July 20, 2007 |
| On DVD: | TBA |
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| Reviewed by: | Louis B. |
| Official website: | wip.warnerbros.com/introducingthedwights |
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In Australia where Introducing the Dwights was made, it was called Clubland.
As Shakespeare would have said, a rose by any name would smell as sweet and boy is this one sweetheart of a movie.
Brenda Blethyn plays a mother from Hell, revisiting many of the same emotions that earned her an Oscar nomination in 1999 for Little Voice.
Blethyn is an incredibly fearless actress who sinks her teeth into a role not caring whether audiences like her one iota.
In the case of Jean Dwight, it’s difficult to find much sympathy for such a self-absorbed woman.
Jean fancied herself a great stand-up comic in England but she lost her heart to a one-hit-wonder British country singer named John Dwight (Frankie J. Holden).
They had a son Tim (Khan Chittenen) and then another Mark (Richard Wilson).
Mark’s difficult birth rendered him physically and mentally handicapped and so strained the marriage that it collapsed.
Twenty years later, Jean is working as a short-order cook by day and trotting out her vulgar comic routine by night.
She’s a kind of low-rent British Phyllis Diller.
She is so insecure that she has tied her two sons to her with apron strings of iron.
Poor Tim is so intimidated that he is emotionally and sexually impotent.
Introducing the Dwights is the story of Jean, Tim and Mark’s coming-of-ages.
They all must reclaim their lives.
We’ve definitely not seen the last of Chittenden who, because of his looks and talent, is poised to become the next Heath Ledger.
He already has an American agent and it won’t be long before he has his first American movie.
Wilson is equally talented and most convincing in portraying both Mark’s mental and physical handicaps.
Introducing the Dwights is not an easy movie to sit through especially when Jean becomes bent on destroying Tim’s relationship with a girl who knows how to save him.
