- Also Known As:
- Unknown
- Year:
- 1996
- Country:
- Predominant Genre:
- Comedy
- Director:
- Outstanding Performance:
- Premiss:
- Twenty-year-old Flora, recently orphaned and poor, goes to stay with distant relatives who are completely round the twist.
- Themes:
- Alienation
- Coming-of-age
- Compassion
- Courage
- Destiny
- Emotional repression
- Empathy
- Family
- Grieving
- Guilt
- Humanity
- Identity
- Loneliness
- Mankind
- Narcissism
- Nostalgia
- Personal change
- Redemption
Self-belief Self-expression - Social class
- Solipsism
- White culture
- Similar (in Plot, Theme or Style) to:
- Unknown
- Review Format:
- tv
Wildly improbable but rather good fun.
Earthy ontogeny-drama replete with dialogue and imagery of mating and fecundity.
The class issues are evaded to present a worldview that if one accepts one’s true vocation in life one can achieve it without too much effort.
The central issue here is that one must escape the prison of an obsession with the past that is a curse. Both the children and their parents have to grow up and are facilitated by a more worldly and sophisticated cousin.
To present this in an acceptably-dramatic way requires that the characters be presented as loveable eccentrics. This aim is well served by an excellent cast headed by Kate BECKINSALE.
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