A sexual coming of age comedy about a shy and inexperienced 20 year-old his raucous comedienne mother and his assertive accidentally funny girlfriend.Running Time: 106 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY/COMING OF AGE UPC: 085391184195 Manufacturer No: 118419
Though Introducing the Dwights lacks a truly original plot, smart acting rescues scenes verging on slapstick and melodrama. Australian director Cherie Nowlan (The Wedding Party) has assembled a wonderful cast for this comedic drama about two teenage sons struggling for autonomy from their mother. In it, aging comedienne Jean (Brenda Blethyn) reigns over her disabled son, Mark (Richard Wilson) and Tim (Khan Chittenden), who works to win Jean over to his new girlfriend, Jill (Emma Booth). This coming-of-age tale is as much about Blethyn's performance as a single, joke-telling mom as it is about Chittenden and Booth, who portray sexually curious young adults with honesty and humor. True to life, many of the most poignant conversations take place in the living room between mother and children. Whether Tim and Jill come home to mom, drunk and dancing around the living room, or experiment in Jill's bedroom with passionate awkwardness, the scenes in Introducing the Dwights portray a family whose love eternally bonds them. —Trinie Dalton

Customer Rating:
Summary: An Undiscovered Gem
Comment: This funny, touching and thought provoking film is an Australian coming of age film, which surely is one of the best independent films of the past year. When one thinks of a coming of age movie, it typically involves an angst ridden teen, and while the excellent Khan Chittenden plays that role, it is Jean Dwight, portrayed by Academy Award nominee Brenda Blethyn, who truly comes of age. Emma Booth is a revelation, and the earnest and authentic Richard Wilson completes the ensemble cast.

Brenda Blethyn turns in a bravura performance, as a stand up comedienne and single mother, struggling to balance her desire for the footlights with one foot firmly planted in smothering her children's maturation. After seeing this film, and laughing and crying, I would highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys Australian or British tragicomedies.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Delightful comedy
Comment: This is a delightful movie. I love it! The situations may be a little bit bizarre, but it's not the typical American movie. This Australian film has a sweet and sour humor that anyone would enjoy. I truly recommend it.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Beware of Misleading
Comment: Eventually, this is a story of generational exchange as following a then-young-lovely-joking husband, an England's cabaret artist came Down Under just to divorce and grow up two sons, a semi-spastic younger and baby-faced twenty-year-old truckie shy and knowing nothing in bedroom activities his girlfriend pushed persistently him in.

Perhaps, produced in a last year of a Howard era, this comedy is a copy-cat of the "family values" movies of the fifties (Tim, for instance), during a last decade Australia had artificially been pressed in, as explicit sex scenes resulted in a happy wedding finally, where a same gender couple dances joyfully.

Titled in Australia "Clubland", it misled me into purchasing surely.

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