CRUSH

Starring: Andie MacDowell, Anna Chancellor, Imelda Staunton and Kenny Doughty
Writer/Director: John McKay
Running Time: 112 mins
Certificate: 15

Every week Kate (MacDowell), Molly (Chancellor) and Janine (Staunton) get to together to compare notes on who has had the worst experiences that week. Kate life takes a turn for the better when she meets Jed (Doughty), an organ player at the funeral parlour. For once Kate thinks she has found happiness with a man but her friends don't agree as he is only twenty-five and has just turned forty.

A slightly more saucy love story for the Mills and Boon generation, the movie starts as funny look into a 40 plus women's sexual re-awaking but then turns into tragic melodrama half way through.

The performances from McDowell, Chancellor and Staunton as the three protagonists are very good and their story comparisons for The Sad Fu*kers Club (the original title of the movie by the way) are the highlight of the film. Good support from Kenny Doughty and mean the acting can't be belittled in anyway.

The problem is that the movie starts as a nice, light-hearted romantic comedy that is spoilt by an unnecessary dramatic twist and an over sentimental ending. It totally throws the movie into a needless new direction which, after an enjoyable the first half of the film, looses some of the character and good feeling that it had tried so hard to build.

While the movie is still quite good, I would have rather have seen the events play out as normal and forgotten about the twist altogether. It seems like by trying to add something new into the fold, the movie lost most of its charm along with it.

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