Driving Lessons (film)
Driving Lessons 2005
Julie Walters OBE - http://www.world-of-celebrities.com/julie_walters
Rupert Grint - http://www.rupertgrint.net
It seems a treat to have both a Victoria Wood and a Julie Walters film / play on TV within a few days, as they don't do enough TV work in my opinion. Some people may remember their work together in the early 1980's as Wood & Walters - sadly a one series sketch show. Of course Julie appears in lots of Victoria's work (Pat & Margaret, Dinnerladies, Acorn Antiques etc), but is most famous for her role in Educating Rita and more recently in Billy Elliot and as Molly Weasley in Harry Potter on the big screen.
One thing is for sure, when she (Julie Walters) is on TV, I watch and she never dissapoints, and Driving Lessons was no different. The story is about a boys' coming of age along side the aging actress Evi (Walters) who claims to be a Dame, but I think that she "made it up" just as she did her "timebomb tits" for Tom and the sympathy she knew he would provide unconditionaly because of his innocence and good heart.
Tom's parent are both involved in the church at different levels - his father as actually priest and his mother as some sort of social organiser, who is having a low-key afair with Jesus (in the play she is organising at the local hall - where Tom plays a tree).
Tom and Evie have a couple of adventures, camping, drinking and a poetry reading session in Edinburgh where Tom loses his virginity. Evie has to make her own way to the Methodist Hall where she forgets her notes and although claiming she knows the Bard off by heart lapses into what seems more like a a bawdy limmerick than the recital she is booked for.
A strange needy character begins to live with Tom and his family and starts to wear Tom's mothers clothes and is accepted easily, yet in a final scene attempts to kill Tom's mother by driving at her in her own car. Her painted on bruises and weak excuses don't fool anyone and the husband asks for a divorce. The mother and lover move to Cornwall, and Tom gets a rjob in a local bookshop and applies to University. Evie is pleased for him but sad to see him grow though she accepts this, "a weeks for me is like a year".
Julie Walters OBE - http://www.world-of-celebrities.com/julie_walters
Rupert Grint - http://www.rupertgrint.net
It seems a treat to have both a Victoria Wood and a Julie Walters film / play on TV within a few days, as they don't do enough TV work in my opinion. Some people may remember their work together in the early 1980's as Wood & Walters - sadly a one series sketch show. Of course Julie appears in lots of Victoria's work (Pat & Margaret, Dinnerladies, Acorn Antiques etc), but is most famous for her role in Educating Rita and more recently in Billy Elliot and as Molly Weasley in Harry Potter on the big screen.
One thing is for sure, when she (Julie Walters) is on TV, I watch and she never dissapoints, and Driving Lessons was no different. The story is about a boys' coming of age along side the aging actress Evi (Walters) who claims to be a Dame, but I think that she "made it up" just as she did her "timebomb tits" for Tom and the sympathy she knew he would provide unconditionaly because of his innocence and good heart.
Tom's parent are both involved in the church at different levels - his father as actually priest and his mother as some sort of social organiser, who is having a low-key afair with Jesus (in the play she is organising at the local hall - where Tom plays a tree).
Tom and Evie have a couple of adventures, camping, drinking and a poetry reading session in Edinburgh where Tom loses his virginity. Evie has to make her own way to the Methodist Hall where she forgets her notes and although claiming she knows the Bard off by heart lapses into what seems more like a a bawdy limmerick than the recital she is booked for.
A strange needy character begins to live with Tom and his family and starts to wear Tom's mothers clothes and is accepted easily, yet in a final scene attempts to kill Tom's mother by driving at her in her own car. Her painted on bruises and weak excuses don't fool anyone and the husband asks for a divorce. The mother and lover move to Cornwall, and Tom gets a rjob in a local bookshop and applies to University. Evie is pleased for him but sad to see him grow though she accepts this, "a weeks for me is like a year".
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