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With two Best Actress Oscar nominations, BAFTA awards and an impressive body of work, England's Brenda Blethyn stands tall as an actress of exceptional talent but with this summer's Introducing the Dwights she has perhaps her most memorable role and gives her greatest performance since her international breakthrough in Mike Leigh's Secrets and Lies. Called Clubland in Australia (I think, at least that's how it's listed on imdb.com), Introducing the Dwights which is expected to open in August, casts Blethyn as Jean, a frustrated performer approaching a critical juncture. What director Cherie Nowland and screenwriter Keith Thompson have managed with material that on the surface seems most ordinary is nothing less than exhilarating. They've taken the familiar dysfunctional family comedy-drama and made it seem fresh and heartbreakingly real.
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