Kristin Scott Thomas and Sharon Horgan star as British women who form a choir while their soldier spouses are away at war in the latest from director Peter Cattaneo ('The Full Monty').
) failed to even vaguely approximate the astonishing return on investment that distinguished his 1997 breakout sleeper hit, has every chance — just like in any Hollywood rise-fall-rise-again movie — of resurrecting the British director's stock again.by again deploying an eclectic, likeably normal-looking ensemble to tell a story about a relatively unsung group of amateurs who build self-esteem through performance .
According to these unwritten rules, it's the job of the partner of whoever is the troop's current staff sergeant to organize regular communal activities to keep morale up when the spouses are on deployment.
When recently arrived newlywed Sarah suggests forming a choir, natural show-off Kate is thrilled but knows she won't get the other women to take part unless Lisa, a much better-liked person among the spouse crowd, is nominally the leader. Lisa is hesitant at first, but given that her own mother taught music and hints are dropped that she may have been in a band herself at one point, she gets into the idea as long as they sing pop songs and not the classical pieces and hymns Kate is keen on.
As if guided by an algorithm, the script maneuvers Kate and Lisa into a growing friendship cemented on a confidence about the death of Kate's son, all the better to engineer a dramatic rift between them that can be healed in the final minutes.
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