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When 'Lady' Sandra Abbott (Academy Award nominee Imelda Staunton, Maleficent, Vera Drake) discovers that her husband of forty years (John Sessions) is having an affair with her best friend (Josie Lawrence) she seeks refuge in London with her estranged, older sister Bif (Celia Imrie, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Bridget Jones' Baby). The two could not be more different - Sandra is a fish out of water next to her outspoken, serial dating, free-spirited sibling. But different is just what Sandra needs at the moment, and she reluctantly lets Bif drag her along to a community dance class, where gradually she starts finding her feet and romance as she meets her sister's friends, Charlie (Timothy Spall), Jackie (Joanna Lumley) and Ted (David Hayman).
Rating
PG-13 (for suggestive material, brief drug use, and brief strong language)
Director
Richard Loncraine
Studio
Roadside Attractions
Writer
Meg Leonard, Nick Moorcroft
  • I really enjoyed this movie tonight!
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  • Excellent acting. Somewhat predictable, but nevertheless enjoyable. Great cast
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  • Another in the raft of feel-good movies for and about the aging but worth watching for solid performances. A great palate cleanser if you've been watching too many noisy, special effects rich superhero movies.
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  • Loved it! Great movie to see with female friends.
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  • My wife and I enjoyed this film. Would YOU enjoy it? Well, let's see...You might like it if you appreciate stories about mid-life crisis, abandonment, and surviving a failed marriage...only to find true love once again. There are no car crashes or explosions in this movie, so -- if that seems like a good idea to you -- then, yes, you might enjoy it!
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  • A really enjoyable movie. Great acting, script predictable but lovely just the same.
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  • quite the uplifting British flick that has enough charm, laughs, and sentimental valueImelda Staunton and Timothy Spall are the biggest names here but Celia Imrie makes the film shine even more with her sparkly performanceSandra is married to her husband of a very prestigious title, although she catches him cheating on her so now it feels like her happiness was betrayed and she cant trust anyone againin response she leaves him and goes to live with her high-spirited sister, Bif who is also friends with an antique repairman, CharlieSandra's sister and Charlie belong to a dance club to which she is resistant at first but finds happiness in a world she never knew since she felt tied down to her husbandBif also has a tragic development later on not letting it define her and Charlie has some baggage to deal with as well making him just as sympatheticSandra becomes alive again with her sister, dancing, and finding freedom and passion like never beforethe actors are so likeable, the music is sweet, and the dancing is bright and colorfulas mentioned before there's a surprising amount of heart sprinkled throughout this familiar scriptit's one thing to be afraid of dying, it's another entirely to be afraid of living, it's also better to be a free woman than be a kept lady, live with no regrets, and it's good to take a leap of faitheveryone should find their footing in life before it's too lateactually didn't expect to like this so much but I did
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  • I really enjoying this, good British humour and great actors.
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  • You know what to expect with a movie like this. Expect no more. Dont expect anything as good as "love actually".
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  • "Finding Your Feet" is a sweet film, the sort of film that only the English seem to be able to make. It is funny, pleasant, has a lesson or two, hits the tear ducts, touches the heart, leaves you feeling good and has a cast that obviously loves their profession.While many may not be too familiar with Imelda Staunton she is a major star of the British stage and commands the screen whether it is her Oscar-nominated starring role in 2004 for "Vera Drake" or her role as Dolores Umbridge in 2 Harry Potter films. In this film, she finds out her husband of 35 years has been having a long time affair with her best friend. She moves in with her estranged sister, Elizabeth, played by Celia Imrie who is the opposite of her. While Staunton, as Lady Sandra Abbott, and her husband, Mike, played by John Sessions, give a party celebrating his knighthood when the film opens, is the positive, faithful, proper wife. mother and grandmother her sister is a pot smoking, drinking, free love, never married hippie living in what looks like a hoarder's apartment.Biff, so called because when they were young Sandra couldn't mention Elizabeth's name, introduces her straight-laced sister to her group of oddball friends and though Sandra and Charlie, played by the very familiar Timothy Spall, don't at first get along, you know as soon as they dance together at the local dance class that the older sister has brought her where that is going to go.That storyline, by Nick Moorcraft and Meg Leonard, is what helps make "Finding Your Feet" the comfortable comedy-drama that would make you expect the happenings, but, also, allowing you to be moved and taken by surprise by some of the dramatic clichés. No, we don't need another joke about Viagra or a Black man's endowment or for that matter a White man's lack of endowment but we smile as the women discuss the latter matters. Also, do we need another scene of 'old folks' doing a well choreographed flash-mob dance set in Piccadilly Circus for charity? Yes, when it has a cast of performers putting a smile on your face."Finding Your Feet" is not a must-see movie but a pleasant, emotional 111 minutes of film that has Bif telling her sister "It's one thing being scared of dying Sandra, but it's a whole other thing being scared of living." And how could I not love a film that has a very believable reference to "A Chorus Line"?
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  • Marvellous 5 Star. There is something funny,sad and emotional...I think Am gonna see it one more time on a big screen and I did
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  • Perfect performances form Imelda Staunton and Celia Imrie makes this essential viewing, An inconsequential but lovely film.
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  • This move has been under-rated. The entire audience for this movie consisted of people ove 65 and these people tend not to use computers so their rating wouldnt be here. Its a lovely gentle movie without blood and guts and violence of these modern movies. It tells the story of an older affluent well to do woman who catches her 'not very nice' husband having an affair with her elderly best friend. The husband then leaves her and she goes to live with her elderly much less affluent sister who lives in a tiny flat in what looks like a big public housing estate. The elderly sister is llovely and lots of fun with dancing classes, her swimming group and a nice bunch of friends. The movie is about the affluent sister finding her feet in this new world. Its a lovely heart warning story. I'm going to see it again. Feeling a bit lost myself as a single mother whose children are grown up, successful and the last is about to leave home, the older sister has inspired me to find some new interests, join a swimming and dance group and try to be happy making my own life.
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  • Forget the critics,great movie,laugh and cry.
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  • Excellent movie, well worth seeing.
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