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Pat & Margaret [1994]


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Tender,Funny,Moving,Hilarious
Review date: 2008-10-07 Rating: 10 out of 10

This is why I love Victoria Wood's work! She manages to take us on a journey through all the major emotions in this type of production,and even though Pat and....is laced with her cutting wit,we are also treated to moments of tenderness.

Julie Walters is,as usual,outstanding,as is every actor represented.
One favourite moment is when the gap between Margaret (Victoria Wood) and Pat (Julie Walters) is blindingly obvious in Margaret's bedsit/flat.
Pat is telling her that she knows a really "simple" recipe using fresh pasta,basil,etc,but all Margaret can produce is tinned spaghetti!

Beautifully observed and brilliantly realised!

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Truly a Gem
Review date: 2007-10-15 Rating: 10 out of 10

Like the rest of you,I have waited a lo-o-o-ng
time for this movie to come to dvd.I was sick and
tired of watching my burned vhs to dvd copy.
The picture quality isn't top of the line but
it beats what I was watching.As one reviewer
stated,some of the dialogue is very hard to
hear because of the music in the background.
However this happens in only a couple of spots.
I gave this movie 5 stars simply because of the
acting and the storyline.
Anything that Julie Walters stars in is sure to
be an example of brilliant acting and in this
movie she again as usual is cream of the crop.

Dynasty Meets Dinner Ladies!
Review date: 2007-05-26 Rating: 8 out of 10

Pat Bedford (Julie Walters) is the top US soap star arriving in her native Britain to promote her latest book on the chat show 'Magic Moments'. Little does she know that the producers have their very own 'magic moment' lined up for her - a surprise (shock!) reunion with the sister she has not seen for nearly 30 years - Margaret Mottesham (Victoria Woods) is in the audience with her pals from the motorway service station. Pat's horror at being confronted, live, with a frumpy, lower class sister with a bad perm, continues as she is co-erced by dippy (and pregnant) PA Clare (Celia Imrie) into moving her sister into her hotel to do photo spreads for magazines and interviews.

Margaret, meanwhile, is unable to get a message to her work mates - who think she has abandoned them for the high life - or her boyfriend, dyslexic Jim who lives with his tyrant of a Mother (Thora Hird).

When a nosey columnist begins to look for Vera, the mother of the girls, Pat and Margaret join forces to find her first and prevent more revelations hitting the front pages. A warm, witty and sentimental story, packed with Victoria Wood's cracking one liners, this is a must for all her fans. Thora Hird gives one of her best performances as Jim's blunt Mother.

"They did not have dyslexia when he was at school. You were just sat at back of class with raffia". Classic.

I knocked off one star in my review because the sound is not great in some parts of the dvd - the background music drowns out the speech in the opening shots - but this is a small quibble and should not prevent those wanting a good film for a night in from treating themselves to a BBC gem.

Why so long to release it, BBC? 1994 it was made - shame on you!

funny, moving and uplifting
Review date: 2007-05-22 Rating: 10 out of 10

you have to hand it to victoria wood - she seems to be able to do no wrong.

this t.v. film is probably the best thing she has done yet. it's the story of two sisters who are thrown together again after several years apart. the trouble is they now seem to have very little in common with each other. they discover that through their mutual bond - their mother - blood really is thicker than water (to use that tired old cliche).

the casting is wonderful. victoria wood as the chip frying motorway service station cook, julia walters the glamourpuss soap star, celia imrie the panicking stressed out and pregnant p.a., duncan preston as margaret's slow boyfriend. even hailey the transexual from "corrie" makes an appearance stirring mince. however, the undoubted star is thora hird. she steals every scene she is in. the crowning moment of the show is when she discovers her son and margaret have had a sex life: "not on the eiderdown!" she gasps.

buy this. a pity it had to wait so long, but good things come to all who wait etc. five stars well earned.

GENIUS - A MASTERPIECE
Review date: 2007-04-21 Rating: 10 out of 10

This is why she is marvellous. This 90 minute film is one of the BEST things she's ever done. It has everything wonderful about her writing in it and a great original story.
It was unbelievable that it was forst screened as part of a series of BBC1 dramas on a Sunday evening. This was her first dabble in doing a feature length story for the TV screen and it is wonderful.
Victoria plays Margaret - who works at a service station. The girls she works with take her to a TV show called Magic Moments - which is abit like Surprise Surprise.
At the same time international soap star Pat has come all the way from America (played by Julie Walters) - to go on a TV show to advertise her book.
Little do both of them know the real reason why they both appear on Magic Moments. And when they do - both their lives are never the same again.
This tackles a clash of classes - it tackles the past that always comes back at you, theres some sad moments, some hilarious moments and Thora Hird has been given some wonderful lines!
This is truly faultless. Caroline Ahearne was inspired by this piece of work. If Victoria Wood is remembered for Acorn Antiques, then she should also be remembered for this. It is amazing.

Product Details/Specifications


Actor(s):
Duncan Preston
Julie Walters
Thora Hird
Celia Imrie
Victoria Wood

Creators:
Victoria Wood (Primary Contributor)
Julie Walters (Primary Contributor)

Director(s):

Recording label: Cinema Club
Manufacturer: Cinema Club
EAN: 5014138304638
Binding: DVD
Number of items: 1
Format: Full Screen, PAL,
Release date: 2007-05-21
Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
Audience rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
Region code: 2
Running time: 85 minutes
Theatrical release date: 1994
Language: English (Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired)
Language: English (Original Language)

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