Complete credited cast: | |||
Kathy Burke | ... | Marey | |
Jennifer Ehle | ... | Sophie | |
Ian Hart | ... | Liam | |
Douglas Henshall | ... | Danny | |
Catherine McCormack | ... | Hannah | |
Dougray Scott | ... | Cameron | |
Emily Woof | ... | Alice | |
Sophie Okonedo | ... | Denise | |
Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
Annabelle Apsion | ... | Hostess | |
Richard Armitage | ... | Smug Man at Party | |
Matt Bardock | ... | Billy's Mate | |
Doreene Blackstock | ... | Nurse | |
Paul Blair | ... | Sweenie | |
Clune | ... | Pub Drummer | |
Matt Costello | ... | Cooky |
The marriage of Danny and Hannah spectacularly crashes during the reception when the bride's best friend tells the groom that the bride is having an affair with her husband! The shock wave of chaos that spreads out from this one event touches the lives of a diverse group of the thirtysomethings that inhabit the Camden Town area of London. Hannah immediately leaves the reception and gets drunk and ends up in bed with the unwashed artist Cameron who shares a flat with a nerdy comic book enthusiast Liam, who in turn starts an ill-advised affair with society dropout single-mother Sophie. Danny meanwhile moves on and embarks on a relationship with a struggling singer Mary, whom he met at the airport on his way to his lonesome honeymoon. This partner-swapping merry-go-round continues for two years until a semblance of normality asserts itself and Danny and Hannah decide to drop everything and embark on their long delayed honeymoon. Written by Mark Smith <msmith@osi.co.uk>
Words that fill me with dread: 'A Joel Schumacher Film' obviously, 'A Romatic Comedy from London', equally horrid. Yet finally someone has got it right - not Joel Schumacher of course.
Peter Kane's salty comedy is something quite new, an unsentimental, contemporary La Ronde set in Camden Lock. His bone dry script is adorned by a magic cast, not least the indomitable Kathy Burke, who is surely now England's greatest treasure. There is a real courage here, no corners are cut and no easy, neat solutions are adopted. If we are a little disgusted by the smugness of the artsy characters it is more than compensated for by their terrible sadness. Very human, very witty and beamed in from a different galaxy from the one that Hugh Grant inhabits.