This dull, unimaginative comedy stars an unhappy David Tennant as an English novelist coming to a remote Scottish island to marry his fiancee, a self-centred Hollywood star (a bewildered Alice Eve), in secret. Their PR man hires a reluctant local girl (an ill-at-ease Kelly Macdonald) to fool the paparazzi, and something less than a mirthful time is had by all. It's a mishmash of three famous Scottish pictures about canny folk from the Highlands and Islands getting the better of visiting Sassenachs: Alexander Mackendrick's Whisky Galore, Powell and Pressburger's I Know Where I'm Going and Bill Forsyth's Local Hero. It should have been called "I Know Where I'm Gurning".
ComedyDavid TennantPhilip French
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ComedyDavid TennantPhilip French
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- 3/11/2012
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
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