sweet film with grim edges..

Rating: 7/10 (16 November 2000)

jamie bell really does an amazing job in this film. when he first danced i thought - my god why would anyone think he could dance? but in fact he moves in a really unique way and he comes across as very original. as it turns out i wish we had seen him dance more. he has style.
julie walters and gary lewis are also very good. it is definitely a performance driven film. it has the requisite tears and laughter (my only real beef with the film is that debbie drops out of sight half way through the film and i thought she was great so i wanted to see her more and find out what happened in her life as well...
it is a nice film, well worth seeing, although i don't think it is entirely necessary to see it on the big screen (well everything is better on the big screen but you won't lose a huge amount visually in the transition from the screen to video..)