Movie of the Week: Fisherman's Friends

[jacey]

Being an unashamed folkie I wanted to see this - not because i thought it was actually a true account of how Fisherman's Friends - a shanty group from Cornwall - were actually picked up by a major label, but - well - because I wanted top see what the movie had come up with. It says it's 'based on a true story' and i think the 'based on' is probably the most important part of the phrase.

Yes, OK, it's a feelgood British film about the undersogs making good. The charactyers are lovely, the story is sweet anhd there's some good shanty singing (though not too much to the non-folkies need not worry).

James Purefoy makes a good grizzled fisherman. I've never been that keen on Daniel mays, but he comes good as the intruder into a closed society, eventually learning to do the right thing.