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Finding Your Feet

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United Kingdom · 2017
Rated PG-13 · 1h 51m
Director Richard Loncraine
Starring Imelda Staunton, Celia Imrie, Timothy Spall, Joanna Lumley
Genre Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance

When the snooty Sandra Abbot discovers that her husband of 40 years has been having an affair with her best friend, she’s thrown for a loop. She ends up in London with her older sister, Bif, a bohemian free spirit from whom she’s long been estranged. But when Bif drags her to a dance class, new possibilities appear.

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60

Time Out by

It is a simple, touching story that is sweetly, undemandingly entertaining. It would be very easy to pick holes in it but it doesn’t give you much reason to want to.

67

Entertainment Weekly by Clark Collis

Finding Your Feet leans heavily on its cast of British screen greats. Luckily, Staunton, Imrie, Spall, Lumley et al are up to the task of dancing around most of the plot’s more tired or ill-considered moments.

70

Variety by Guy Lodge

The modest rewards in Finding Your Feet are ones of sprightly human chemistry rather than great narrative discovery, of all-round good humor rather than outright hilarity.

40

The Telegraph by Helen O'Hara

It’s not all bad: no film with this cast could ever fail entirely. Staunton makes you root for Sandra even at her worst, and Imrie offers an impish, joyous counterbalance to her pursed-lip disapproval.

42

The A.V. Club by Ignatiy Vishnevetsky

Pitched to the weekday-matinee crowd, the insipid British retirement-age comedy Finding Your Feet doesn’t have much to recommend it apart from its grossly overqualified cast, led by Imelda Staunton and Timothy Spall.

60

Total Film by James Mottram

Its love-in-later-life insights are well-worn, but with Staunton on song, Richard Loncraine’s film mines genuine feeling.

40

The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw

No movie with these excellent actors can be a complete dead loss, of course, but it’s the kind of feelgood film that somehow always manages to set a keynote of feel-bad, feel-sad gentility.

60

Los Angeles Times by Robert Abele

As hopelessly strained and unfunny as the fish-out-of-water material is in the guess-the-lines-predictable screenplay by Meg Leonard and Nick Moorcroft, the actors ultimately sell its sentiment, like expert landscapers who can make a homey garden using artificial turf.

75

RogerEbert.com by Susan Wloszczyna

Finding Your Feet finds its own footing by putting its trust in its sturdy performers and avoiding many of the usual tea-time clichés as it allows its British cast to be defined by their relatable human circumstances more than quaint Anglo quirks.

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