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A family crisis brews when a domineering woman's virginal 20-year-old son falls in love.
If you find a movie with a more annoying central performance than the one given by Brenda Blethyn in Cherie Nowlan's Introducing the Dwights, keep it to yourself. Duty calls, so I don't have that option.
Blethyn, a normally restrained actress temporarily turned free-range ham, plays Jean, a one-time British showbiz hopeful now working in the kitchen of an Australian fry joint while keeping her dream of stardom alive with a raunchy standup act at a comedy club.
Besides making people laugh, which she rarely does, Jean's major preoccupation is keeping her sons - virginal 20-year-old Tim (Khan Chittendon) and mentally handicapped Mark (Richard Wilson) - from wandering far from the nest.
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