Product Information
Annie Mary, a woman in her early thirties, living in the Rhondda Valley, South Wales is forced to make changes in her life when her father suffers a major stroke. The future of the family business is left in her hands and so she hatches a plan to raise money the only way she can...Product Identifiers
ProducerDamian Jones, Graham Broadbent
EAN6867449009797
eBay Product ID (ePID)72575978
Product Key Features
ActorMatthew Rhys, Jonathan Pryce, Ruth Madoc, Rachel Griffiths, Ioan Gruffudd
Film/TV TitleVery Annie Mary
DirectorSara Sugarman
LanguageEnglish
Run Time104 Mins
Aspect Ratio16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Release Year2009
FormatDVD
FeaturesWidescreen
GenreGeneral, Comedy
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs1
Certificate15
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Additional InformationThe myth of the eccentric Englishman (or woman) is given a cinematic boost by the awkwardly hysterical VERY ANNIE MARY, a tale of a young Welsh woman's stumbling struggle to proclaim her independence and strike out on her own. With an epic sweep reminiscent of THE SOUND OF MUSIC, VERY ANNIE MARY examines the bucolic and banal life of 33-year-old Annie Mary (Rachel Griffiths), a perpetually adolescent and tragically klutzy young woman, miserably under the thumb of her egomaniacal opera singing father (Jonathan Pryce). Since the death of her beloved and similarly opera-loving mother when she was a girl, Annie Mary clings to the memories of a childhood musical competition where she was awarded a scholarship to study opera singing in Milan (which her domineering father prevented her from accepting). Haunted by the spectre of a future that could never be, Annie Mary mopes around, lost in hopeless dreams of living on her own and finding love. When her father is rendered helpless by a stroke, Annie Mary is forced to take her life into her own hands, which is when her inspired and overenthusiastic effort to reclaim her true self (and her singing voice) begins to send shock waves through her secluded Welsh village.
ReviewsSight and Sound - ...[A] disarming blend of eccentricity and dark narrative touches..., Total Film - ...It has Rachel Griffiths showing a flair for physical comedy as gawky misfit Annie Mary that rivals her already proven talent for accents....This is a delightfully eccentric fable..., News Of The World - It's a laugh-out-loud hit! Very warm, very funny, very wonderful
Sound sourceDolby Digital
Movie/TV TitleVery Annie Mary
Consumer AdviceSome strong language and single instance of moderate sex