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Take A Girl Like You [VHS] [2000]

VHS ~ Rupert Graves
4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Rupert Graves, Hugh Bonneville, Robert Daws, Emma Chambers, Sienna Guillory
  • Directors: Nick Hurran
  • Writers: Andrew Davies, Kingsley Amis
  • Producers: Gareth Neame, Hal E. Chester, Jane Tranter, Nigel Taylor, Rebecca Eaton
  • Format: PAL
  • Classification: PG
  • Studio: 2 Entertain Video
  • VHS Release Date: 26 Mar 2001
  • Run Time: 154 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000056X2V
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 5,212 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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Amazon.co.uk Review

Kingsley Amis's poignantly comic novel Take a Girl Like You is here brilliantly adapted for television by Andrew Davies. In the 1950s, a young northern girl arrives to become a primary school teacher in a stifling home-counties town. Even as she steps off the train and makes her way through the streets to her boarding house, she exudes waves of untainted sexuality that become an immediate target for the frustrations and libidos of the men in her wake. What follows is a rites of passage tale for both Jenny Bunn, the girl, and Patrick Standish, the young Lothario who pursues her, wins her and, as his final sad voiceover reveals, ultimately loses her.

Sienna Guillem blossoms as Jenny, perplexed by and finally resigned to her own allure. The magnificent cast also includes Robert Daws as the porcine boarding house landlord and Emma Chambers spitting acid barbs as his permanently disappointed wife Martha. Rupert Graves adds Patrick Standish to his repertoire of flawed, attractive young men. In one key scene, he encounters a winning cameo from Leslie Phillips as an ageing roué, and it's as if he's caught a glimpse of himself 40 years down the line. Take a Girl Like You is BBC drama at its finest. --Piers Ford



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Adapted from Kingsley Amis' novel this is the story of Jenny Bunn - a young, desirable girl, but a virgin. She has strong feelings for Patrick but he doesn't love her. He cannot however shake off his infatuation with the girl...
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Love in a cold climate with heartache, jealousy and laughter, 18 Jan 2001
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This is Kingsley Amis at his perceptive best. Over 60? Then if you're English, you'll remember those lost "You've-never-had-it-so-good" days of cosy pubs, warm beer and windy station platforms. Prosperity, colour and sunshine seemed to come flooding back after the grey "utility" days of the war years.Under 60, or even 30? Then here's a bit of social history well worth seeing. You can almost smell the inside of the dingy boarding house of the early scenes; the cabbage water, the gas from the geyser,the cheap shampoo and the french polish. This production catches the attitudes, the mores, the slowly slipping standards inculcated by Church and Chapel since time immemorial and which the War had done much to loosen. Achingly pretty Jenny Bunn arrives from "Up North" to teach in a Home Counties town, somewhere near London. Her innocence is about to be rudely undone. Patrick Standish ("Randy Standy" to his friends), a handsome young Cambridge graduate who teaches at the local posh (public) school, falls head over heels in love with her. The film is the story of his courtship, her attraction to him and yet her moral reluctance to go "All the way". The film is peopled with delightful characters from the period: posh cads, dirty rotters, a moth eaten lord and lady or two, jealous females and much more. It is a little glossy - perhaps for the American market? - but none the worse for that. You will laugh a lot, weep a little, and be bewitched by the music of the period, well played, which will put you and keep you in the mood until the end. Don't miss it, it is quite as good as the better costume dramas the BBC also does so well.
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5.0 out of 5 stars brilliant, 8 Aug 2009
Very hard to find video ! well worth the purchase price ! if you can find it !
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