A feel-good, charming little film about dreams, life, responsibility, home, passion, family, friendships and country music. Uplifting and touching, this film was three acts and the truth with a star-cementing performance by Jessie Buckley (or star-making, if you didn’t catch her in the Tom Hardy series “Taboo”).
Buckley was raw and passionate and honest, and the choices her character made was as hard to watch as it was satisfyingly resolved. Her journey was not easy, and us the audience was brought along for the ride, but the payoff was worth it.
Great direction by Tom Harper with a simple yet beautifully honest screenplay by Nicole Taylor.
Julie Walters and Sophie Okonedo were both also phenomenal. Okonedo brought a sincere warmth and humanity to an otherwise possibly bland and idealistic character; and Walters totally nailed the emotional challenge of a parent and she really delivered in that final scene.
That epilogue...what a great bookend! Country music is really my guilty pleasure.
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