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Lively performances help... But the film's lumpy style and structure end up rendering it as fogeyish as its target.

Philip Saville, who directs from a screenplay by Adrian Hodges, starts with a straightforward story of life choices and slips in teasing asides... What Saville doesn't do, mercifully, is depend on sentiment.

For all the nudity and sexual content, Philip Saville's unoriginal and predictable film is, at its core, no different from one you'd find premiering on network television.

A moving film about the compromises of adulthood, but perhaps a little too earnest.