Very Annie Mary

Name: Very Annie Mary
Genre: Comedy

United Kingdom, France · 2001
1h 44m
Director Sara Sugarman
Starring Rachel Griffiths, Jonathan Pryce, Ioan Gruffudd, Matthew Rhys
Genre Comedy

Set in the fictional village of "Ogw" in the valleys of south-east Wales. After her father Jack suffers a stroke Annie Mary Pugh is forced to take care of him but uses the circumstances to emancipate herself and find the courage to sing once again.

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L.A. Weekly by

Annoyingly fourth-hand -- scraped from the shoes of "The Full Monty," mixed with Michael Caine's "Little Voice" hair-smarm and salted with "Billy Elliot's" dandruff.

Variety by Derek Elley

A half-klutzy, half-engaging eccentric comedy.

San Francisco Chronicle by Edward Guthmann

Pryce is very good, but Very Annie Mary is a bit too eager to please.

New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman

Having mined England and Ireland dry, filmmakers are now turning to Wales for their quirkiness quota.

New Times (L.A.) by Gregory Weinkauf

As a whole it's vibrant, witty and richly detailed.

Village Voice by Jessica Winter

Leaks treacle from every pore.

Los Angeles Times by Kevin Thomas

Familiar but winningly funny and good-hearted.

New York Post by Lou Lumenick

Strong contender for the weirdest movie released this year.

The New York Times by Stephen Holden

As it lurches between mush and farce, Very Annie Mary churns up a few genuinely funny bits.

TV Guide Magazine by Steve Simels

The cast is uniformly excellent -- Pryce in simultaneously utterly horrible and a real hoot as the wildly egomaniacal paterfamilias -- but the film itself is merely mildly charming.