The McAllister family house is the setting for Gerry and Ellie's grapples with work, children and how to get the bathroom fixed. Both have reached the stage where reason cannot be heard above the ticking clock of experience and ambition. When temptation comes, how will they react?
Acting
Rea and Cusack weaponize passive-aggression into high art.
Writing
Dialogue so painfully real you'll check if your walls have ears.
Director
Les Blair
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Les Blair largely worked in television; this remains one of his few theatrical features, shot on a shoestring in actual London locations.
Part of a 1990s wave of British 'kitchen sink' revival films exploring Thatcher's legacy on ordinary marriages, though it bombed and remains criminally underseen.
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