A Bump Along the Way

Just chanced upon this on SBS World Movies (Australia). Really glad I did, it was instantly enjoyable. A story we've more or less all seen before, but the Irish just seem to have a knack of doing these things really well. Great performances by the two lead actors.

It's a lovely movie, very good actors and enjoyable to watch.

I really liked this film. The theme and protagonists were real. But the execution wasn't as good. Too feminist to hit the bullseye.

Some Women in society can have it tough, but not all Males are bad. That was the flaw in this missing the balance in this movie.

Coming of age drama and a good story of bonding between a single parent and their child. Funny in parts too.

This is a terrific film which cracks (craics!) along at a terrific pace with plenty of laugh out loud moments. I saw it at the UK premiere at the Regents Street Cinema and the place rocked with laughter. Super central performance from Bronagh Gallagher with fine support all round. Pretty nifty soundtrack too.

When flighty fortysomething Pamela (Bronagh Gallagher) falls pregnant after a drunken one-nighter, her already fractious relationship with teenage daughter Allegra (Lola Petticrew) comes under further strain. Might this finally be the wake-up call she needs? Will the frost between mother and daughter begin to thaw? The answers aren't hard to guess in a predictable comedydrama that's a little short on big laughs. Yet it's convincingly played by its two terrific leads, while the barbed arguments carry enough sting that its soft-centred conclusion, contrived as it is, feels well earned.