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Introducing the Dwights features a feisty and often entertaining Brenda Blethyn as an aspiring stand-up comedian. But her efforts are overshadowed by an Australian movie that borrows shamelessly from overfamiliar conceits.
Essentially the movie revisits two tropes: the story of the working-class dreamer -- as shown in 1983's Flashdance and 1997's The Full Monty -- for whom the performing arts becomes a way out of financial doldrums and toward their dreams; and the older-woman comedies of recent years, such as Calendar Girls and Saving Grace, in which the characters do something outrageous (pose nude for a calendar, grow marijuana, etc.) to make ends meet.
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