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DVD ~ Rachel Griffiths
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  • Actors: Rachel Griffiths, Jonathan Pryce, Ioan Gruffudd, Matthew Rhys, Kenneth Griffith
  • Directors: Sara Sugarman
  • Writers: Sara Sugarman
  • Producers: Damian Jones, Graham Broadbent, Lesley Stewart
  • Format: Anamorphic, PAL
  • Language English
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Cinema Club
  • DVD Release Date: 14 April 2003
  • Run Time: 99 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00005AFO3
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 16,343 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Captivating and heart-warming, when it was released in 2001 Very Annie-Mary was greeted as the latest in a long line of small, quirky British comedies. In fact, Very Annie-Mary is a proudly Welsh film, celebrating the eccentricity of a small town in the valleys where the inhabitants certainly suffer deprivation but are by no means isolated from the outside world. They simply plough their own furrow. None more so than Annie-Mary herself, a 30-year-old woman trapped in gawky adolescence by the death of her mother and subsequent years of repression by her father, the Pavarotti-obsessed town baker (brilliant Jonathan Pryce). In a plot slightly reminiscent of Little Voice, she has lost her prize-winning singing voice, apparently forever.

Played with resolute intensity by Rachel Griffiths, Annie-Mary is hardly odder than her fellow townsfolk. But when her father has a stroke and she is thrown on her own awkward resources to fulfil both her personal dreams and those of her mortally sick friend Bethan, she finds unique comic ways to cope with disaster. Redemption comes with the return of her ability to sing.

The excellent cast includes cameos from Ioan Gruffudd and Matthew Rhys as the gay couple who run the sweet shop and Ruth Madoc as a libidinous widow. Everyone delivers all-stops-out performances in even the smallest roles. The promising script is loaded with one-liners; but its constituent parts promise more than they eventually deliver. --Piers Ford

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DVD Special Features:
Aspect ratio: 16:9 anamorphic.
Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subtitles: English for the Hard of Hearing

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars An entertaininly funny, if somewhat zany film//., 21 April 2002
This review is from: Very Annie Mary [VHS] [2001] (VHS Tape)
With Sarah Sugarman's films you can expect the unexpected, her comedy and humour can be somewhat unorthodox, madcap and zany, but her latest offering, Very Annie Mary, is her best so far. Set in a South Wales valley it tells the story of a baker and his daughter, (who is still living at home and helping in the business), and the trials and tribulations she has to endure when she is left to look after her ailing father following a siezure. Not a normal topic for comedy but this film succeeds where others would not have dared to tread. Also look out for welsh celebs in the background to the main action, Ruth Maddock and Maureen Rees, (from tv's Driving School), to name just two. Buy this video now and after having watched it you'll then want to be on the look out for others from this inovative director, Sarah Sugarman is in a league of her own regarding the films that she makes.
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars I laughed till I cried, 30 Aug 2003
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This is a brilliant film, I swear I know half the people in it, and my mother knows the other half !! It is very welsh, and I do think being welsh helps you understand the humour, the part where they are wheeling the coffin down the hill on a bike, and someone offers to help.......I can hear my dad saying that ! its a must see film, in fact i'm going to watch it again this afternoon, absolutely brilliant !!!
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars What a Great British film!, 6 Sep 2005
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This film was a huge and very pleasant surprise to me - purchased in a hurry with a number of other DVD's to keep the kids quiet while on holiday we sat down to watch, I was half expecting an American Teen Movie as I'd only glanced at the cover and what I got was what should be a british classic in the same league as The Commitments, 4 weddings & a funeral, etc. Brilliantly scripted and beautifully filmed it did what any great movie should do - it made me laugh, it made me cry, it left a great lasting impression when it finished, and it made me wish the film was longer! This is definately a film that I could watch again and again!
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5.0 out of 5 stars If you don't have a sense of humour - don't watch.
Very Annie Mary is funny, touching, and is scary in places only because there are characters in the film that are so true to life it's uncanny. Read more
Published 11 months ago by C. Derham-Simpson

5.0 out of 5 stars What a gem!!
This is definitely one of my favourite films of all time. It surely ranks up there with the very best British films like Four Weddings, The Full Monty, Saving Grace and Billy... Read more
Published on 12 Mar 2007 by Josephine

5.0 out of 5 stars If you know the Welsh valleys, you'll love this film.
This film is hilarious, sensitive and exquisitely acted.
It is not weird, it's barely even quirky as long as you understand and can identify it within it's own context; The... Read more
Published on 8 Mar 2007 by Maranach

3.0 out of 5 stars Weird, but endearing
Very Annie Mary is definitely one of the weirdest films I've seen and has some of the weirdest characters, including Annie Mary in the major role, but at the same time it... Read more
Published on 14 Aug 2006 by Lili_K

2.0 out of 5 stars The valleys are not this green!
This a a quirky film which promises much but delivers disappointingly little. Not enough is seen of a fabulous location in the South Wales valleys and this is ultimately a pretty... Read more
Published on 30 Jul 2006 by Jeannie Dean

5.0 out of 5 stars Great comedy moments plus real life drama
The film stars Jonathan Pryce who serves up an outstanding performance as the overbearing father and Rachel Griffiths as the head in the clouds thirtysomething trying to break... Read more
Published on 10 April 2006 by david williams

5.0 out of 5 stars surreal riches
This is a great movie - one my boyfriend has kept mentioning but despite his reservations in case he had overstated it all four of us watching laughed and laughed. Read more
Published on 6 Feb 2006

4.0 out of 5 stars A quirky set up but a transcendant payoff for this one
I read where John Irving said recently that he always writes the end of his story first, and I have the feeling that writer-director Sara Sugarman did something along those lines... Read more
Published on 2 Sep 2005 by Lawrance M. Bernabo

5.0 out of 5 stars Not without its faults, but...
It's probably difficult for any Welsh person (particularly any Welsh Jonathan Pryce fan!) to avoid giving this movie 10 out of 10. Read more
Published on 29 Jun 2004 by paellataffy

5.0 out of 5 stars A real gem.
I bought this film as it was in the sale and had good reviews here, although I was sceptical about reports of laughing out loud. But it really did have us laughing out loud! Read more
Published on 23 Mar 2004

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