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As lively as a slap in the face, this film struggles to connect with us due to an extremely unsympathetic central figure, but still wins us over with strong acting and a sweet romance.
Jean Dwight (Blethyn) is an English comic who gave it all up to move to Sydney with her husband (Holden) and raise two boys. Now grown, the feisty, mentally disabled Mark (Wilson) works on an assembly line, while the younger Tim (Chittenden) drives a moving van. But their real full-time job is taking care of their self-absorbed control freak mum. Over the years she has driven away her husband and any girl who gets close to her sons. Now Tim has a new girlfriend (Booth), and it's starting to feel like all-out war.
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