The combination of writer and director (Willy Russell, Lewis Gilbert) is the same as for Educating Rita. And although the face is different (Pauline Collins's), the circumstance of an unknown screen actress who had created the role on stage is again the same. So is the general theme of an individual woman's liberation: here a Manchester housewife who in middle age gets a free ticket to Greece, to romance, to her old irrepressible self. But somehow it's less touching this time, more hand-me-down and worn-out. And still worse, more throttlingly tied to the stage: a lot of direct address to the camera, with palsy-walsy aphorisms that are "cute" the way Erma Bombeck is cute. In a word: too, too. With Tom Conti and Bernard Hill. (1989) — Duncan Shepherd
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