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Scenes of a Sexual Nature

Country: UK, Language: English, 91 mins

  • Director: Ed Blum
  • Writer: Aschlin Ditta
  • Producer: Ed Blum; Suran Goonatilake

CGiii Comment

Small episodes set on Hampstead Heath – some of them work, some don't.

A little contrived, a little indulgent.

Some fine performance, some not.

It is shallow...not even ankle deep.

Whimsical and tepid - but, watchable.


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The(ir) Blurb...

Various Londeners meet people in Hampstead Heath park. Financial adviser Billy, a successful casual sex seeker, discusses the pros, contras and how of his child-wish. Cheeky Noel innocent pick-up lines lead only to cruelty from girls, once even abandoned jeans on ankles. Gerry's promising blind date picnic ends as abruptly when his business partner turns up, who just agreed a Barbados holiday with his steady girl. Eddie discovers trough a date mix-up that Iris, his ripe age, who come to the same park weekly too but a day earlier, was his prospective mate until they each met their now late partners decades ago. Pete comes settle the end of a marriage that shouldn't have happened except for his daughter.

Cast & Characters

Holly Aird as Molly;
Eileen Atkins as Iris;
Hugh Bonneville as Gerry;
Tom Hardy as Noel;
Douglas Hodge as Brian;
Adrian Lester as Pete;
Andrew Lincoln as Jamie;
Ewan McGregor as Billy;
Gina McKee as Julia;
Elle Mckenzie as Eve;
Sophie Okonedo as Anna;
Eglantine Rembauville-Nicolle as Sophie;
Nicholas Sidi as Ludo;
Mark Strong as Louis;
Catherine Tate as Sara