Kat and the Band

A great little film, small budget, but that doesn't show. The cast are excellent, with each character clearly defined with no wasted characters or dialogues. The visuals are all good, especially the gig footage when The Band is playing. With a great cameo from Badly Drawn Boy, this film is everything you need for a feel good afternoon or evenings viewing. Kids and adults would enjoy this.

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.

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)!

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.

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.