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Information
- Year
- 2016
- Runtime
- 96 min.
- Director
- Rachel Tunnard
- Genre
- Comedy
- Rating *
- 8.0
- Votes *
- 12
- Checks
- 138
- Favs
- 5
- Dislikes
- 2
- Favs/checks
- 3.6% (1:28)
- Favs/dislikes
- 3:1
Top comments
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CSSCHNEIDER
Incredibly charming film with excellent performances. This is why I watch British films. 7 years 9 months ago -
Neens
This film can't decide whether it wants to be arty, melancholy or quirky, and as a result it is mostly dull - apart from the moments when you want to slap Anna's mother, that is. Excellent casting, though. 2 years 4 months ago -
Siskoid
In Adult Life Skills, Jodie Whitaker plays a woman in full-on arrested development after her twin brother dies, letting herself rot, one might say, trying to sustain a connection to her departed other self. Her sole outlet is making Gondry-esque videos about her thumbs (twins, obviously), existentialists, flying into space. Quite frankly, I'd watch the hell out of that YouTube channel if it existed. Meanwhile, her mother is desperately trying to kick her out of her shed and get her life in order, her more supportive grandmother completing the frequently amusing family dynamic. But it's a much bigger cast than that - friends, love (dis)interests, and a peculiar young boy who takes Anna as a sort of role model. As sad indie comedies go, it perhaps has too much going on (is everything thematically consistent, or are there details thrown in just because they're different or interesting?), but it mostly charms. Whitaker shows the same unselfconscious attitude she does in her turn as Doctor Who (was this perhaps instrumental in her getting the job?), and she's very well supported by everyone around her, kid included. 5 years 3 months ago