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My Life So Far (1999)

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Average rating: 44%
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Starring: Colin Firth, Rosemary Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Malcolm McDowell
Director: Hugh Hudson
Run time: 94 mins
Certificate: TBC
User collections: My Malcolm McDowell Collection
Genres: Comedy
Languages: English
Released: unknown

Brief synopsis of My Life So Far

Memoir of the lives of a family growing up on a post World War I British estate headed up by a strong disciplinarian (Rosemary Harris), her daughter (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio), her inventor husband (Colin Firth), their ten year old son (Robbie Norman), and his older sister (Kelly MacDonald). Through the household comes a number of suitors hoping to impress the young woman, including an aviator (Tcheky Karyo). When the elder woman's son (Malcolm MacDowell) shows up at the estate with his French maid (Irene Jacob), everything gets thrown into turmoil. The young boy takes a sudden interest in her sexual allure and his father is disturbed by his own non-Victorian feelings.

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Rated - 3 starsNot great but okay

jennifer claire from Ireland [Highly rated reviewer] , 18/05/2007

One of those 'my funny up-bringing' films usually decribed as a 'bitter sweet coming of age film'. If you like that sort of thing, than this is the sort of thing you will like: nostaligia, a peculiar child you could not like if you reared him and a father who is worse, and a grandfather who was worse still. Laughs are few and a bit forced. Precocious young child studying Victorian porn, played for laughs, anyone? Cast tries. Colin Firth is miscast- his old loveable loser persona meets his later haughty git persona and they don't gel well. And his Scots accent... For die hard fans only. All in all too unpleasant to be 'heartwarming' and to soft focus to be genuinely dark.

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Rated - 2 starsPoor.

carla1989 from Hebburn [Highly rated reviewer] , 16/09/2008

Awful film. Colin Firth's scottish accent is HILARIOUS! Worth watching to see Malcolm McDowell punch him in the face! ;) (sorry, Col!)

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Rated - 3 starsNot great but okay

jennifer claire from Ireland [Highly rated reviewer] , 18/05/2007

One of those 'my funny up-bringing' films usually decribed as a 'bitter sweet coming of age film'. If you like that sort of thing, than this is the sort of thing you will like: nostaligia, a peculiar child you could not like if you reared him and a father who is worse, and a grandfather who was worse still. Laughs are few and a bit forced. Precocious young child studying Victorian porn, played for laughs, anyone? Cast tries. Colin Firth is miscast- his old loveable loser persona meets his later haughty git persona and they don't gel well. And his Scots accent... For die hard fans only. All in all too unpleasant to be 'heartwarming' and to soft focus to be genuinely dark.

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