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Career Girls
1997
Director Mike Leigh follows up his Oscar-nominated SECRETS AND LIES with CAREER GIRLS, a bittersweet drama that deals with the passage of time between two friends. Annie (Lynda Steadman) and Hannah (Katrin Cartlidge) were college roommates in London. Six years later, Annie is taking the train back into London to reunite with .. Read more
| Starring | Katrin Cartlidge, Lynda Steadman, Kate Byers, Mark Benton |
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| Director | Mike Leigh |
| Genres | Drama |
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Career Girls
Director Mike Leigh follows up his Oscar-nominated SECRETS AND LIES with CAREER GIRLS, a bittersweet drama that deals with the passage of time between two friends. Annie (Lynda Steadman) and Hannah (Katrin Cartlidge) were college roommates in London. Six years later, Annie is taking the train back into London to reunite with her friend. The resulting connection sparks flashbacks from the past, where we learn that Annie was even more shy and defensive than she is currently. Helping to pull her out of her shell was Adrian (Joe Tucker), a fellow student who had an affair with both girls while they were still in school. While apartment hunting for Hannah, they bump into Adrian, who is now a real estate agent. Sadly, he doesn't remember either of them. The reunion also triggers memories of Ricky (Mark Benton), an overweight, self-conscious friend whose fragility seemed ready to cave him in at any moment. When Hannah and Annie track Ricky down, they find that he has only gotten worse and are forced to reevaluate their current lives and face up to their muddled discontentment. Steadman, Cartlidge, and Benton deliver subtle yet deeply engaging performances in CAREER GIRLS, another moving character study from acclaimed director Leigh.
| Starring | Katrin Cartlidge, Lynda Steadman, Kate Byers, Mark Benton, Mark Benton, Andy Serkis, Joe Tucker, Michael Healy, Margo Stanley |
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| Director | Mike Leigh |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 23 mins |
| Certificate |  |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Subtitles | DVD: None |
| Released | Production year: 1997 To Rent: DVD: 11 Feb 2002 |
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With a cast twitching away like contestants at a St Vitus's dance marathon, this is an intensely caricatured, unenlightening account of student life and its aftermath.
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An English classic
If the Brontes, Austin and their ilk have written classic English literature, then surely Mike Leigh deserves equal recogniton for his contribution to cinema.<... read more »
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- 27 Nov 2004 at 11:54
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Passed the time but didn't give much joy
This was meant to be a bittersweet story, it was more bitter than sweet, it actually started grating on me, not one of his best films but not one of the worst ... read more »
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You need to be patient
Almost switched it off - then the characters slowly grew on me. Mike Leigh likes to use unusual characters and studies them in detail. This film, however, has ... read more »
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Not Mike Leigh's best
And I speak as a fan...I couldn't quite get the point of this film; two women have a reunion ten years after leaving college, and....umm, talk a lot, go ... read more »
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- MinkyNinky
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- Matlock, Derbyshire, UK
- 04 Apr 2010 at 20:23
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Career Girls
Director Mike Leigh follows up his Oscar-nominated SECRETS AND LIES with CAREER GIRLS, a bittersweet drama that deals with the passage of time between two friends. Annie (Lynda Steadman) and Hannah (Katrin Cartlidge) were college roommates in London. Six years later, Annie is taking the train back ...
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