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Shed a tear for Introducing the Dwights
A family "dramedy" in the vein of Little Miss Sunshine, Introducing the Dwights hails from the suburbs of Australia. Already met with middling reviews, Dwights doesn't stand a chance at garnering the attention Sunshine enjoyed, but that constitutes no reason to bypass it.
The film's central character, Jean (Brenda Blethyn), was a somewhat famous entertainer in her youth, and while she still gives it a go at dingy clubs, her star has long been waning. In the meantime, she married and divorced a one-hit-wonder country singer, with whom she had two sons, the older of which, Mark (Richard Wilson), was brain damaged at birth, and the younger of which, Tim (Khan Chittenden) is about to fly the coop after a lifetime of over-mothering. It's this impending coming of age that is the source of the ample drama contained in Dwights, a common enough familial rite of passage that's colored by the eccentricities within this entertainment-world family.
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