Surprisingly moving and very British

The British love the underdog and few people know this as well as the comic Lee Evans. So first-time director Tony Grounds must have felt on sure ground when he cast Evans as a feckless dreamer living on benefits and for ever entering hopeless competitions. The kind of person, in fact, whom the National Lottery was devised to fleece...

Don't expect a laugh a minute but more a very moving, almost too sentimental story about a man's personal odyssey from a disturbed mental state akin to arrested childhood into true adulthood. Kathy Burke and Linda Bassett shine as Evans's long-suffering wife and awful, shrewish mum in law.