Actor Richard E. Grant's semi-autobiographical coming-of-age film, set in Swaziland on the verge of its independence, but centering on his messy domestic situation, his cheating mother, his boozing father, and his unceremonious American stepmother, "a common little ex-air hostess." (The title comes from her mimicry of Brit speech affectations.) It has the feel of a public testimonial, a purgation, not terribly painful, nor particularly involving, for the disinterested spectator. Well acted by Miranda Richardson, Gabriel Byrne, and Emily Watson (putting on, and playing up, an American accent), but was it really necessary to employ two separate actors, a couple of years apart, to play the adolescent hero? And a bit more might have been made of his acting-out of his private torments in his home-made puppet theater. With Nicholas Hoult, Julie Walters, Celia Imrie, Zachary Fox. (2006) — Duncan Shepherd
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