Not all plays do well on the big screen.
It was made 14 years after the modern days setting so even attitudes had changed in that time.
Ok, it's not the best script in the world and Lesley Sharpe's cockney accent is suspect but I suspect many reviewers here don't remember shows like Til Death Do Us Part, Love They Neighbour and Mind Your Language.
This is spreading a similar message.
Times are changing and the safety blanket of the past is being taken away from those brought up in those times.
The film may not have been entirely filmed in Brighton but how many films and shows are actually filmed where they are set?
Most TV shows seem to be filmed in studios in Leeds or Manchester these days.
The film is about changing times and maybe would have been better wet in Eastbourne or god's waiting room as my resident relative there calls it.
For a relatively small place Brighton does receive a lot of film and TV exposure.
As said, the story isn't brilliant but the actors do their characters well.
Perhaps a lot less looking at old impressions and more on the values of the past might have given the main cast greater credit.
Not a film for the woke but a nice bit of nostalgia for those old enough to have experienced the highs and lows in life.
It's far from a 10 but PC brigade giving it a 1 isn't right either.
Could have been much better. A good cast deserved better too.
