never think that there could be a mike leigh movie that i wouldn not like . but this be one . the thing with leigh movie be that the story be for the big part just ordinary people in their ordinary everyday life . and it be the character that almost make you feel like you be watch a documentary and that make them so special . this story be again a story with nothing much interesting . two roommate that meet again . half of the time in real life and the other in sort of flashback . but this time the acting be so very much overdone and that it be almost like i be watch an american comedy and with just the fake laugh in the background miss . apart from an occasional laugh and i watch it till the end a if i be sit in the chair at my dentist . just for old time mike leigh sake .