The truth often undercuts the film’s simplistic notions about true love and about friendship.

Get back, get back to where you once belonged, you want to shout. But the movie is stuck in the wrong groove.

There's nothing very profound here, but we do at least get a nice handling of period and milieu, and pretty good performances of the songs.

If there is a ‘most valuable player’ to this film it is Ian Hart, who blends an uncannily accurate voice with perfectly mimicked mannerisms and an impressive depth of character.