"Introducing the Dwights" (2007)

For all its cathartic kicking and screaming (and drinking and blubbering), there’s not much of a story here, just a lot of conventional wisdom about growing up and growing older, that we’ve all seen and heard before. At her best, Brenda Blethyn’s performance borders on Mommie Dearest-territory, but every potentially interesting dark undertone is erased by a cringe-inducing happy ending that is all too reminiscent of Little Miss Sunshine.


Read my review of Introducing the Dwights (2007) here at The L Magazine online.

http://www.thelmagazine.com/5/14/Film/feature4.cfm?ctype=2