Fast Freddie, the Widow and Me

TV Movie
2011
1h 13m

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Laurence Fox and Sarah Smart in Fast Freddie, the Widow and Me (2011)

Jonathan Donald, a wealthy, arrogant car salesman, is charged with drink driving and sentenced to 60 hours community service at the Moonbeam club for unruly kids. He makes no effort to hide ... Read allJonathan Donald, a wealthy, arrogant car salesman, is charged with drink driving and sentenced to 60 hours community service at the Moonbeam club for unruly kids. He makes no effort to hide his initial disdain and falls foul of the club organizer, young widow Laura, though the ki... Read allJonathan Donald, a wealthy, arrogant car salesman, is charged with drink driving and sentenced to 60 hours community service at the Moonbeam club for unruly kids. He makes no effort to hide his initial disdain and falls foul of the club organizer, young widow Laura, though the kids warm to him after he has taken them on a designer clothes shopping spree. In particular... Read all

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7mcdaid

Car dealer having to do community service seeks to make a dying boy's wishes come true

Sentimental but not overly mawkish Christmas drama. Laurence Fox plays wealthy London car dealer Jonathan Donald, whose life revolves around closing the next big deal. Sentenced to 60 hours community service helping a group of disadvantaged special needs children, including a boy with a terminal heart condition, he reappraises the priorities in his life. Good performances from cast, with Jack McMullen as Fast Freddie and Sarah Smart as a dedicated community worker stand out. While this drama will not live long in the memory and has a rather leaden script, it passes the time well enough and is amiable albeit rather gritty fare for Christmas.

10Sleepin_Dragon

Absolutely loved it

It seems such a pity to me that the one off drama seems a thing of the recent past, all we get now are six, or eight part, heavy serials. This was a truly refreshing, one off drama. It had me in fits of laughter, and in floods of tears, there aren't many dramas that have managed to be so sad, so bleak, and yet so heart warming, and utterly hilarious.

The sad moments will have you sobbing, the humour will have you in stitches, there is one great moment in particular where the whole family are gathered, it's joyous to watch.

Terrific performances, Laurence Fox, Sarah Smart and Jack McMullen are terrific, the humour definitely comes from Anne Beach and Tamzin Outhwaite, the pair are so funny.

I get why someone wouldn't enjoy it, but I utterly loved it.

3pawebster

Yuk!

ITV must have thought everyone would be so comatose after Christmas food and drink that they would lap up any old sentimental twaddle. Perhaps millions did. This drama could have been put together by a write-your-own TV script computer program ("Click here for tear jerker") and possibly was.

What gave it the final kiss of death was the presence of Laurence Fox in the leading role. He seems to specialise in phone-it-in performances, and this is a case in point. Perhaps the script is partly to blame, as his character starts the film as a childish egotist, who suddenly, at the mere turn of a page, becomes a soft-hearted philanthropist. However, I suspect that almost any TV actor of his age could have done a better job with the material.

Jack McMullen is so-so in his role, while Sarah Smart is very good in hers.

6alan-harris43

fast Freddie, the widow and me

|I tried to watch this movie this afternoon, but found I was unable to watch it, not because I thought it was no good or anything like that, but because of the theme of the film hit a bit too close to home for me as I am in a similar situation, as the Fast Freddie character, I have been on renal dialysis for the last 17 years and am on my final access. I think any film that can bring home what it is like to be on dialysis can only be good. I wish there were more films like this about. As for the cast what I saw of Lawrence Fox and his transformation for have-it-all yuppie to a caring individual did seem a little unbelievable, but as I said above it was the Fast Freddie character that got my attention, overall I thought it was quite good, and it made a change to see something like kidney failure getting a mention.