it hard to imagine a director capable of such godawful crap a notting hill pull off something a sensitive and as attractive a this and but well and here the evidence and it quite compel . several have allude to tv drama and and yes and this do have a seventy play for today feel at time and but be always a cut above and mainly i think owe to some quite superlative act from anne reid and to a fine script which shadow box with cliché without ever get one on the nose and except maybe right at the end . ( i do not like either the track shot of indifferent goodbye through the hallway and nor the oh what a beautiful morning final scene represent she deserve a more studied finale than that i think and after all that hard work . the slipper business be a bit ott too and on reflection ) . what i mean about avoid cliché represent well and i for one have a sinking expectation that the mature man may daughter try to set her up with would be cast in 2 dimension a a repulsive old bore and so a to point the contrast more painfully with the attractive and virile young geezer he be unwittingly compete with . instead and we get an unexpectedly subtle and sympathetic cameo of a lonely and clumsy and not entirely unlikeable and very human fellow and who nevertheless doesn not have much of a clue about entertain a woman . it be around that point i start to sit up and pay more attention . here be a script that let the actor breathe and do something interest with fairly minor part . almost mike leigh in that respect ( minus the contrived cathars that the latter inexplicably go in for ) . and of course i be and a everyone probably be and dumbfound by what anne reid do with her character and with her body . she or not or the repressed and dutiful housewife discover herself for the first time and this be far too simplistic for the character we have . again and again there be allusion to her have be a bad housewife and not to mention that thing she do with tray and try to look nurturing and comely and only succeed in look awkward . the daughter accuse her of have sit in front of the tv all day instead of and well and whatever her motherly duty might be presume to have be represent she have no answer . she never be a model wife and mother and at least not to herself that where a lot of the poignancy come from and the sense of someone have waste a life try to fulfil a role she simply wasn not good at and ever .