Little Voice 1998
- Director: Mark Herman
- Based on novel: No
- Cast: Jane Horrocks, Ewan McGregor, Michael Caine, Brenda Blethyn, Philip Jackson, Annette Badland, Jim Broadbent
- Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in
- Jane Horrocks – Absolutely Fabulous, Gracie, Corpse Bride, Born Romantic, Life Is Sweet
- Ewan McGregor – Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, The Island, Big Fish, Young Adam, Star Wars, Moulin Rouge, Velvet Goldmine, A Life Less Ordinary, Brassed Off, Karaoke, Trainspotting, Shallow Grave
- Michael Caine – the Batman trilogy, Inception, Sleuth (both versions), The Prestige, Children of Men, The Weather Man, Last Orders, Get Carter, Cider House Rules, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Mona Lisa, Educating Rita, Alfie
- Brenda Blethyn – Vera, London River, Atonement, Saving Grace, Secrets and Lies, King Lear, Henry VI Part One
- Philip Jackson – My Week with Marilyn, Brassed Off
- Annette Badland – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Angels and Insects
- Jim Broadbent – Harry Potter, Filth, Another Year, The Young Victoria, Hot Fuzz, Vera Drake, Nicholas Nickleby, Gangs of New York, Moulin Rouge, Bridget Jones’s Diary, Topsy-Turvy, Smilla’s Sense of Snow, Richard III, The Crying Game, Enchanted April, Life Is Sweet, Brazil, Black Adder
- Why? Jane Horrocks, Ewan McGregor
- Seen: 3 or 4 times previously. Now 20 September 2015
Many of you probably think of Jane
Horrocks as the absolutely fabulous Bubbles. I associate her with Life Is Sweet and it was for her that I
bought this film.
Which is just so good.
LV is a socially inept essentially
autistic recluse living with her coarse, fast-living, big mouth mother. LV
hides behind her incredibly good singing voice. She can imitate anybody –
Marilyn Monroe, Billy Holiday, Judy Garland, Shirley Bassey - and she does so
in the privacy of her own room.
Billy is a nice shy lad who works
with the telephone company. His best friends are his pigeons.
They find each other, but life isn’t
easy. She’s discovered by a sleazy nightclub hustler, Michael Caine, who
exploits her talent and tramples all over her, eagerly cheered on by her
mother.
Michael Caine and Brenda Blethyn are
a treat as middle-aged, alcoholic, sex mad degenerates who are both very
vulnerable to life’s hard knocks.
Ewan McGregor is a sweetheart and
Jane Horrocks, doing her own singing, is simply brilliant.
If you haven’t seen this film, see
it!
5 * of 5