Bill Nighy stars as a dapper tailor trying to mend fences with his family through the magic of Scrabble in this British comedy-drama, written by Frank Cottrell Boyce and directed by Carl Hunter.
Deploying some fun retro effects like rear projection screens and animation, and a jaunty soundtrack from Edwyn Collins and Sean Read, rocker-turned-director Carl Hunter manages to bring cohesion to the amusing but herky-jerky script by Frank Cottrell Boyce . Often, the whole shebang plays like a rattle bag of tropes, digressions and stray running gags.
That's especially true when it comes to Scrabble, which has been a lifelong passion for Alan. A single widower on awkward terms these days with his son Peter , a sign painter, Alan mostly plays the game online with strangers. His enthusiasm wasn't even dimmed by an argument over Scrabble that he believes caused his son Michael to leave home many years ago, never to be seen again.
This dark little interlude abruptly changes the stakes, creating a tonal instability the film struggles to stabilize. The coroner scene comes right on the heels of a witty sequence where Alan hustles Arthur out of 200 pounds through a "friendly" game of Scrabble played in the sad, shabby little bar of the bed and breakfast where all four characters coincidentally happen to be staying.
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