Introducing the Dwights
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  • Starring: Brenda Blethyn, Emma Booth, Khan Chittenden
  • Summary: Introducing the Dwights is a comedy about a mother who tries to come between her son and his coming of age. Tim's mom, Jean, is a bawdy and risqué comedienne still hoping to make it big. His brother Mark helps their mother rehearse for shows. Together, they inhabit a non-traditional householld where chaos is the norm, the music is always on, and Jean's larger-than-life personality takes center stage. When Tim meets and falls for Jill, his home becomes a combat zone as his mother fears this new girl, whose name she refuses to remember, will "break up" the unique family unit she's tried so hard to keep together. In this quirky and oftentimes touching tale, Tim must learn to manage the emotions of the women of his life without losing himself in the process. (Warner Independent Pictures)… Expand

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 23
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 23
  3. Negative: 4 out of 23
  1. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Ruthe Stein
    100
    Among the many strengths of the sweetly touching Introducing the Dwights, a small gem from Australia unearthed at the Sundance Film Festival, is that Jean never becomes Godzilla.
  2. ReelViews
    Reviewed by: James Berardinelli
    75
    It does what all good coming of age movies do, and that makes it a worthy and welcome entry into the genre.
  3. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Sid Smith
    50
    The movie successfully balances the sentimental and bittersweet only about half the time. The performances are intelligent and well-crafted, and Blethyn is unmistakably a star performer, attracting attention like a vortex. But she's somewhat miscast here.
  4. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Wesley Morris
    38
    Nothing about this movie works, not the title (it used to be called "Clubland "), not Blethyn's attempt to inject comedy into her rickety stereotype of a character.

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  1. JohnC.
    9
    A beautiful indie about seriously flawed people - who make choices and change - just like real folks. Tight script. Terrific acting all around. Interesting characters you care about. The oh-so-clever clever Mr. A.O. Scott says this is a dysfunctional family. No. It is a functional family of people with handicaps who manage to pull together and pull through. They could implode and fail - or implode and survive. Write your own script. And what happened to Joe Morgenstern while I wasn't paying attention? Has he been replaced by someone who's idea of a review is to give away the story and then make nasty comments? Are all her reviews this insipid? Normally I avoid reviews in the yellow - there are so many good films I don't have time to see. But this time I would have missed a good film that lovers of small films should see. I'm making the WSJ's Joanne Kaufman a "negative indicator". Let the reader beware.… Expand
  2. JimG
    5
    Disappointing. Brenda Blethyn has been typecast in another emotionally overwrought role that she already played in Secrets and Lies, a much more effective use of her talent.… Collapse

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