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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
Director	Mike Leigh
Genres	Drama

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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.
- 30243
- - Halliwell's Film Guide
  - 02 Mar 2006 at 15:38
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- - 9
  - 0
  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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  - Ned0
  - W.Yorks
  - 27 Nov 2004 at 11:54
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- - 0
  - 0
  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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- - MsLilly
  - 249 reviews
  - London
  - 27 Jun 2011 at 16:52
- - 0
  - 0
  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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  - Redhill
  - 11 Aug 2010 at 19:38
- - 0
  - 0
  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
  - 52 reviews
  - Matlock, Derbyshire, UK
  - 04 Apr 2010 at 20:23
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  Also on the disc...
  
  Also on the disc you'll find the enjoyable 15 minute film 'Short and Curlies' which features Alison Steadman (as far away from Candice Marie as you ... read more »
  
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  - Britain
  - 27 Nov 2009 at 22:50
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  Poor
  
  As someone who has enjoyed several of Mike Leigh's film I found this one very disappointing. A wafer-thin story which goes nowhere and some dreadful acting ... read more »
  
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  - Norfolk
  - 21 Nov 2009 at 18:07
- - 1
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  Interesting
  
  This was very thought provoking. It wasn't very enjoyable ,but worth watching
  
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  - Guildford UK
  - 24 Apr 2009 at 20:11
- - 0
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  lovely film
  
  Mike Leigh, insightful and entertaining as ever... not to be missed.
  
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  - sheffield
  - 18 Apr 2009 at 19:27
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  milliereturn
  
  Returned this film unwatched and so can't comment
  
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  - Usk
  - 12 Apr 2009 at 20:41
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  Career Girls
  
  I had forgotton how amusing yet emotional this film actually was, and perhaps moreso now I am 10 years on from finishing University. I remember going to watch ... read more »
  
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- - Woollydingo
  - 5 reviews
  - Braunton
  - 04 Apr 2009 at 12:42
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  career girls
  
  Very good indeed - makes uneasy viewing but Mike Leigh pulls it off superbly.
  
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- - irve
  - 4 reviews
  - London
  - 04 Mar 2009 at 21:57
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- - 9
  - 0
  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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- 315235
- [Highly rated reviewer]
  - Ned0
  - W.Yorks
  - 27 Nov 2004 at 11:54
- - 5
  - 0
  Heartwarming but also sad
  
  Mike Leigh's Career Girls is a gentle story exploring how two thirty year old women have changed since their University days together.
  
  There are ... read more »
  
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- - Kuohu
  - Warwickshire
  - 04 Feb 2005 at 08:53
- - 3
  - 0
  Much to enjoy
  
  It's not Leigh's best, its on a shoestring budget and the plot is full of holes. That miserly preface out of the way, its a sweet film about friendship ... read more »
  
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- - Steve
  - Finsbury Park
  - 16 Nov 2004 at 17:04
- - 3
  - 0
  LIGHTHEARTED COMEDY
  
  GOOD FILM. I FOUND THIS TO BE LIGHTHEARTED,EASY LISTENING COMEDY.I LIKED THE PARTS WHERE IT WENT BACK IN TIME TO THERE STUDENT DAYS.
  
  WORTH A WATCH.
  
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  - ESSEX,ENGLAND
  - 20 Jul 2005 at 13:00
- - 3
  - 1
  real life can be boring
  
  Mike Leigh is the master of character driven drama and realistic dialogue.
  
  This film was a little bit too close to just hanging out with friends to ... read more »
  
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- 309627
- - remotes
  - Leicestershire
  - 16 Sep 2004 at 22:40
- - 2
  - 0
  Oscarworthy
  
  A great, truly remarkable film. It pares down through the layers of bizarre social behaviour and fractured body language to the real pains that people come ... read more »
  
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- - berild1
  - Oxon
  - 09 Mar 2005 at 07:52
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  career girls
  
  Very good indeed - makes uneasy viewing but Mike Leigh pulls it off superbly.
  
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- - irve
  - 4 reviews
  - London
  - 04 Mar 2009 at 21:57
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  Interesting
  
  This was very thought provoking. It wasn't very enjoyable ,but worth watching
  
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- - a customer
  - Guildford UK
  - 24 Apr 2009 at 20:11
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  - 1
  different
  
  I found this entertaining, but I wouldn't have cared had I missed seeing it. Its sort of a nothing film, if you get my drift.
  
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  - Cheltenham
  - 18 Mar 2005 at 10:04
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  Polytechnic Life
  
  For those of us whose under-graduate life was not spent at some beautiful historical place of learning this brings back memories. This is a lighter work from ... read more »
  
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- - Bobnessuk
  - 169 reviews
  - LONDON
  - 04 Apr 2005 at 09:50

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Critics' reviews
- 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.
- 30243
- - Halliwell's Film Guide
  - 02 Mar 2006 at 15:38
- "...CAREER GIRLS offers the ultimate meta-commentary on the Leigh method....CAREER GIRLS helps itself to the raw intensity of a good melodrama..."
- 7766
- - Sight and Sound
  - 11 Mar 2005 at 12:58
- Leigh reverts to type: good news for anyone who feared our harshest caricaturist might be losing his edge, not so good... read more on Time Out
- 43377
- - Time Out
  - 04 Nov 2008 at 00:13
- "...Ms. Cartlidge is a wary, tender, bristling good actress..."
- 7765
- - New York Times
  - 11 Mar 2005 at 12:58
- "...Surprisingly modest..."
- 7767
- - USA Today
  - 11 Mar 2005 at 12:58

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  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 ...