Sundance Film Festival Guide
January 2007
CLUBLAND
by Geoffrey Gilmore

 

Every once in a while, a love story that defies your expectations comes along. Clubland director Cherie Nowlan and screenwriter Keith Thompson have created just that in this engagingly original romance that underscores the truism that there are never just two people in a family love story.

Brenda Blethyn stars as Jean Dwight, on the downslope of a career as a bawdy and risqué comedienne. Her sons, Tim and his intellectually disabled brother Mark, inhabit a household where chaos is the norm.

 

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