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  • 2018
  • Not Rated
  • Cleopatra Entertainment
  • 1 h 22 m
  • 2018
  • Not Rated
  • Cleopatra Entertainment
  • 1 h 22 m

Summary Super close mother Lyn and daughter Iona are excited for their new life in a new town. Determined to make a success of things after a tricky start, Iona becomes "best friends" with Keely, Stacey and Chelsea. Used to being Iona's bestie herself, Lyn feels left out. So Lyn also makes friends with Belinda, her neighbor. As much as Lyn and I...

Directed By: Deborah Haywood

Written By: Deborah Haywood

  • 2018
  • Not Rated
  • Cleopatra Entertainment
  • 1 h 22 m
  • 2018
  • Not Rated
  • Cleopatra Entertainment
  • 1 h 22 m

Pin Cushion

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
74
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 6 User Ratings
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Summary Super close mother Lyn and daughter Iona are excited for their new life in a new town. Determined to make a success of things after a tricky start, Iona becomes "best friends" with Keely, Stacey and Chelsea. Used to being Iona's bestie herself, Lyn feels left out. So Lyn also makes friends with Belinda, her neighbor. As much as Lyn and I...

Directed By: Deborah Haywood

Written By: Deborah Haywood

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83
Jun 1, 2018
Haywood brilliantly subverts her audience’s expectations at every step of the way. She introduces characters as tropes and steers them into the opposite direction.
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80
Jul 19, 2018
While Pin Cushion might prove too distressing for some, it’s still peculiarly, undeniably original.
By Jeannette Catsoulis FULL REVIEW
80
Jul 16, 2018
Uneven in places, Pin Cushion nonetheless offers a moving meditation on what it feels like to be different, elevated by great work from Joanna Scanlan and newcomer Lily Newmark.
By Ian Freer FULL REVIEW
75
Jun 1, 2018
Pin Cushion is as quirky and as prickly as its title, an unclassifiable dramedy about bullying and mother-daughter relationships that proposes that mean-girl behavior doesn’t go away after high school.
By Katie Rife FULL REVIEW
70
Jul 19, 2018
Pin Cushion has the visual cues of comedy, with its candy-colored kitsch and exaggerated signifiers of eccentricity and snobbery, but at heart, it’s a tragedy of naïveté.
By Serena Donadoni FULL REVIEW
70
Jul 19, 2018
Scanlan is stunning as the odd but fiercely loving Lyn. She regards Iona warily, knowingly, seeing into her future and what she’s walking into, but with no way to stop it.
By Katie Walsh FULL REVIEW
70
Jun 1, 2018
Cinematically, Pin Cushion goes all in on a heightened, macramé-and-macaroons aesthetic that occasionally smothers the rawer nerves of its storytelling.
By Guy Lodge FULL REVIEW

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Production Company BFI Film Fund, Dignity Film Finance, Pin Cushion Film Company, Rosevine Films
Release Date Jul 20, 2018
Duration 1 h 22 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/579e2c10e4e3d
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Awards

British Independent Film Awards
• 3 Nominations
Cleveland International Film Festival
• 2 Nominations
Créteil International Women's Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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