The great Patricia Routhledge tries her best with this TV drama that led to a series years later for her. As the bored Hetty Wainthropp, she's out to find the son of an old friend, and when she thinks she's found him, he asks her to find his missing teenage son who is a street kid she encounters by chance. It's a questionable general plot filled with black and white flashbacks (going back to that ancient year, 1980), and never settling on a consistent mood. At one point it's filled with dry hunor, another time slightly wacky and then all of a sudden overloaded with pathos.
Visits to London's Carnaby Street are visually fun, but the scene of the young boy ending up in what looks like a yarn wig is just plain weird as are the two young women who help him change his looks. The continued presence of the Noel Gay song "The Sun Has Got His Hat On" from "Me & My Girl" gives off the impression of a mood for the film that fools the audience. The film is also trying too hard to be hip which adds a weird vibe to the movie as a whole. Unique maybe, but that doesn't necessarily mean good, although Routhledge is fascinating to watch in anything.
Visits to London's Carnaby Street are visually fun, but the scene of the young boy ending up in what looks like a yarn wig is just plain weird as are the two young women who help him change his looks. The continued presence of the Noel Gay song "The Sun Has Got His Hat On" from "Me & My Girl" gives off the impression of a mood for the film that fools the audience. The film is also trying too hard to be hip which adds a weird vibe to the movie as a whole. Unique maybe, but that doesn't necessarily mean good, although Routhledge is fascinating to watch in anything.