Hunky Dory

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  • Opened March 22, 2013 (Limited)
  • 1 hr 50 min
  • NR

  • The long hot summer of 1976 was a heady time of sweltering heat, glam rock, flared trousers, long hair and platform shoes. From the producer of "Billy Elliot" come the musical rites-of-passage HUNKY DORY, set in a south Wales public school during that summer. Minnie Driver stars as Viv who has left London and her thespian aspirations, to work as a drama teacher in the local high school of her south Wales home town. Determined to fire up her hormonal, apathetic teenage charges, she sets about staging a rock musical based on Shakespeare's The Tempest for the school's end of year show. Battling the summer teenage distractions of love, lust and the local lido, Viv perseveres and rallies the group to express themselves through music and drama. Full synopsis

  • Cast: Minnie Driver, Aneurin Barnard, Danielle Branch, Robert Pugh, Haydn Gwynne
  • Director: Marc Evans
  • Genres: Art House/Foreign, Drama

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by dannypants

Reviewers who didn't like this movie are MORONS! The movie is sort of like Glee set in 1976. And if you are a person of a certain age, your preteen or teen years were spent during this time and you...

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The Hollywood Reporter
| John DeFore

When rehearsals finally give way to full, unconventional production numbers, it's hard to imagine any way Hunky Dory could get much better. Read full review

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New York Daily News
| Elizabeth Weitzman

Enthusiasm carries the day in this paint-by-numbers period tale, which is just charming enough to coast on its own clichés. Read full review

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The Guardian
| Peter Bradshaw

Marc Evans's Hunky Dory is sentimental, sweet-natured and daft as a brush. Read full review

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