Clubland (2007)

This Australian coming-of-age comedy/drama features SECRETS AND LIES star Brenda Blethyn as Jeannie, a semi-monstrous mom who gave up a promising career as a British comic to move Down Under and marry a one-hit wonder country singer. One of her two sons is mentally handicapped (Richard Wilson); the other is a sensitive kid named Tim (Kham Chittenden), whose sexual maturity has been waylaid by his clingy mom's fear of being abandoned again (her husband--understandably--left her). He's got to look after his brother and drive Mom to her local club gigs as she attempts a comeback. Complications arise when Tim meets J...
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ill (Emma Booth), a girl cute and bright enough to be worth standing up to his mother for. Director Cherie Nowlan stages the ensuing family fracas in the style of Australia's and England's past working-class comedy hits, like MURIEL'S WEDDING and LIFE IS SWEET. This suits the larger-than-life talents of Blethyn just fine: over the top is her natural habitat and here she inhabits it body and soul. The broad comic strokes are nicely balanced by some subtle shading in the sensitive romance between Tim and his Jill. Chittenden is very likeable, and his sensitivity makes a nice foil for the histrionics on display. Still, it's Blethyn's show all the way (she also wrote much of her own stand-up material), and fans of her work in the films of Mike Leigh will be happy with the warm, improvisatory feel of much of INTRODUCING THE DWIGHTS (or CLUBLAND as it's known in Australia).
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An already-unstable household becomes a virtual battle zone when the son of a risqué comedienne and a has-been singer finds mom meddling in his love life in director Cherie Nowlan's dysfunctional romantic comedy. Twenty-one-year-old Tim Dwight (Khan Chittenden) comes from a peculiar family; his mother, Jean (Brenda Blethyn), is a bawdy stage comic renowned for her scatological sense of humor and his father, John (Frankie J. Holden), is a faded country-music star who now works as a low-rent security guard. While dad is busy trying to revive his flat-lined career, mom spends most of her time doting on Tim and his ...
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developmentally disabled brother, Mark (Richard Wilson). Upon meeting the beautiful Jill (Emma Booth), Tim believes his may have finally found the woman of his dreams. Unfortunately in Jean's eyes there is only room for one woman in Tim's life, and that woman is his mother. As Tim's relationship with Jill grows increasingly serious, the stage is set for a battle royal between the woman who once gave him life and the prospective mother of his future children.
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Jean Dwight (Brenda Blethyn) is een comedienne die haar beste tijd wel gehad heeft. Dapper maar vol verlangen naar het verleden gaat ze door met haar shows. Thuis wachten haar twee zoons. De verlegen en aparte Tim en zijn al even vreemde broer Mark. Dan is er ook nog hun vader en de echtgenoot van Jean, die zich nergens mee lijkt te bemoeien. Ze lijken allen gevangen in een cirkel van chaos en onbegrip. Als Tim op een dag thuis komt met zijn nieuwe vriendin Jill, lijkt deze vlotte jonge vrouw de aangewezen persoon om de cirkel te doorbreken. Maar dan begint Jean te vrezen voor haar familie en ziet in Jill een gro...
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ot gevaar. Het huishouden dat nooit stabiel was, verandert in een gevechtzone.
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