Since I've always loved this film I'm now delighted to have my very own copy of it. Apart from anything else it's British film making at its best. It's also very much about what it mmeans to be English. One of the most inspiring facts about it is that, although it's certainly comedy, there's a powerful thread running through it that is so true to life with believable characters - people we've all come across at sometime in our lives. Even Little Voice herself will remind us of shy people we may have met at one time or another. It's so easy to identify with all the characters and love them all, warts and all, just as they are. What more can one say? Not only is this five stars all the way, it sends up a myriad of bright stars to burst out all around it.