Kat and the Band

What a fantastic film about an enthusiastic schoolgirl starting a business using imaginative ways to get where she needs to be! It is incredibly inspiring for young people to follow their dream and be confident to start out no matter what obstacles appear to pop up. They are opportunities to overcome during the journey towards success. It is through the learning from experiences both positive and not that leads us on our path through life. Brilliant!

A fun feel-good film with real heart, Kat and The Band is well worth a watch. If you're feeling fed up this will definitely brighten your day!

Deft and subtle direction brings out brilliant performances in the cast and you really care about Kat and the people in her world throughout.

It looks good, feels good and leaves you feeling good - independent British film at its best. Enjoy (I did)!

Started watching this - didn't know anything about it beforehand. It's a reasonable attempt at a "teen" flick, and does have some good actors in it....but unfortunately they don't prop up what is a pretty weak film. The actress in the titular role is competent, but the band members look like this is their first real acting job...maybe it is??

The storyline needs to be tighter, the direction needs to be more aggressive and less ponderous and the script itself just needs to be more professional...

I'm pretty sure that a load of effort was put into this film, so I have to show a degree of respect for that, but I could tell within the first few minutes that it fell some way short of being a polished production.

17 year old high schooler Kat Malone (Ella Hunt) is a talker. She lies and cheats to get into the music world. She talks her way into managing Alex and his struggling band, Dollar Days.

The story is rather standard and a little clunky. It does have good original 90's style alternative music. The guys are not breaking out. Ella Hunt is a good actress but she comes off a little too old for the role. She first shows up in the movie all made up towering over her best friend. The effect is that she is obviously playing younger. There are other clunky elements like breaking up with her best friend twice. Once is enough. It would have been nice if her friend does something to make up for their fight instead of the other way around. At the end of the day, this is small indie trying to punch above its weight. It has some good music and that's half the battle.

Really loved this. A young schoolgirl dreams the impossible dream, to manage a cool band (brilliant performance by Dougie Poynter). Has to sneak out from under her mother's nose to make it all happen right in the middle of her A levels. The soundtrack drives the antics (great music tracks). Every teen's fantasy.

The director manages to draw out tear-jerking performances, especially from the beautiful young star Ella Hunt, who flips seamlessly between scruffy schoolgirl and hip band manager.