I'm giving it a 7 purely because it's an example of how things change, some for the better, some for the worse, the film features 4 old friends who met in Brighton when they were young and ended up marrying each other hoping that nothing had changed when they re-visit as old people, the best elements in this are the foul language bickering between the main cast and the story of one meeting a lady her dad saved when she was a little girl herself, her dad dies saving the girl but because he didn't come back she thought he'd abandoned her, one thing it isn't is a jolly movie although it is comical in itself but I'd expect a mature audience will get more from it than a young one as they can relate to the content where young ppl will have no reference point having not experienced anything other than what they've seen so far, so if you're over 40 I think you will up mark it and under you'll be bored watching it as you won't be able to relate to it, overall it's a movie that was worth watching but could be graded anywhere between 1 & 10 depending on whose viewing it, Larry & Phil work it well between them.
Plot summary
Brighton brings together the crème of British character actors to portray Derek, Dinah, Dave and Doreen, two retired working-class couples, who return to the seaside resort of Brighton after an absence of 40 years in an uproarious attempt to relive their youth. Flashbacks to the 1950s reveal teenage Derek and Dave as a couple of lively cockney chancers out to pull as many girls as they can over the weekend, and Dinah and Doreen down from London and enjoying independence for the very first time in their lives. Strolling the promenade in the new millennium, the aged couples present a grotesque reflection of their heady rock-and-roll years as they struggle to come to terms with the changes in society and themselves. The couples' return provides Doreen with a chance meeting which reveals an act of self-sacrifice that finally brings closure to decades of remorse. However, a single bigoted act of aggression from Derek exposes the mutual intolerance of class, gender and sexual orientations still prevalent in Britain today.
December 05, 2022 at 01:32 PM
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A lesson
Just ok
Great cast but not really suited to the movie format. Would be better on the stage.
Under 60? Don't bother
This is the kind of film that anyone born after 1970 won't understand. Most of a certain age and upwards will understand the pops crackles and aches and pains from old bones, the loss of one's youth thinking you are still young at heart and body, but aren't. The language and racist/sexist language I guess would have a younger generation shocked. The acting is very good by both young and old, the cinematography is very good. There's also small sub plots in the four main characters experience in their younger days at the hands of bullies and personal loss. All in all a good film for those of us getting older and reminiscing of our times as teddy boys and the mayhem.