Fisherman's Friends (2019)
Country: GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 112m
Director: Chris Foggin
Cast: James Purefoy, David Hayman, Daniel Mays, Meadow Nobrega
Synopsis:
Music industry workers on a stag weekend in Cornwall discover an a capella group of shanty singers, and con one of their number into turning them into a marketable proposition.
Review:
By-numbers Britcom based on a true story, like Brassed Off crossed with The Titfield Thunderbolt, the latter being a pub in this instance. It is pleasant enough but all too predictable in its story beats, and somewhat outstays its welcome. The mixture of regional bluster and vulnerability is comfortingly familiar but the emotional tides somehow fail to overwhelm the viewer.
Country: GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 112m
Director: Chris Foggin
Cast: James Purefoy, David Hayman, Daniel Mays, Meadow Nobrega
Synopsis:
Music industry workers on a stag weekend in Cornwall discover an a capella group of shanty singers, and con one of their number into turning them into a marketable proposition.
Review:
By-numbers Britcom based on a true story, like Brassed Off crossed with The Titfield Thunderbolt, the latter being a pub in this instance. It is pleasant enough but all too predictable in its story beats, and somewhat outstays its welcome. The mixture of regional bluster and vulnerability is comfortingly familiar but the emotional tides somehow fail to overwhelm the viewer.
Country: GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 112m
Director: Chris Foggin
Cast: James Purefoy, David Hayman, Daniel Mays, Meadow Nobrega
Synopsis:
Music industry workers on a stag weekend in Cornwall discover an a capella group of shanty singers, and con one of their number into turning them into a marketable proposition.
Review:
By-numbers Britcom based on a true story, like Brassed Off crossed with The Titfield Thunderbolt, the latter being a pub in this instance. It is pleasant enough but all too predictable in its story beats, and somewhat outstays its welcome. The mixture of regional bluster and vulnerability is comfortingly familiar but the emotional tides somehow fail to overwhelm the viewer.