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Bottom Line: A Down Under blunder, starring Brenda Blethyn as a housewife with pretensions of stardom
Brenda Blethyn's alarm clock blares out "Bad to the Bone" to get her going. Add "funny" to "bone" and you have the nature of this uneven Australian comedy, which screened at the Sundance Film Festival. An ambitious coming-of-age story spliced together with a midlife-crisis yarn, Clubland is a heavy-handed and often ham-fisted film that will have trouble holding the discerning audiences that appreciate Blethyn's talents.
© The Hollywood Reporter
