Fresh
Though on paper the movie sounds like a slick relationship comedy, it plays much more realistically.
Derek Elley, Variety
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Overview
Liverpool chancer Sam moves to London with his aspiring chanteuse mum and begins an affair with a PR boss. But problems arise when he falls for her estranged daughter, too.
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Fresh
Most effective when the deceits perpetrated not just by Sam but by several others begin to take their wretched toll, and a real sense of pain intrudes.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
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