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Book Group (The)
- Director: Annie Griffin
- Writer: Annie Griffin
- Producer: Anita Overland; Derrin Schlesinger
CGiii Comment
A book group is meant to be fun, informative, enlightening - so, why wasn't this?!?
Written by an American in Scotland - possibly, autobiographical - this is one book group that would have lasted for one meeting and one meeting only......because, it is led by a vile, frumpy, condescending Neo-Fascist.
Over-written, contrived and, frankly, odious.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
American Clare Pettengill, newly arrived in Glasgow, starts up a book group in order to make some new friends. The group consists of three unhappy European football wives, a pretentious drug-addict student, a closet-homosexual football enthusiast, and a kind and gentle struggling author in a wheelchair. Each week they meet to read and discuss a new book, which always affects or influences each of the group's lives in some way.
Cast & Characters
Anne Dudek as Clare Pettengill;
Bonnie Engstrom as Dirka;
Michelle Gomez as Janice McCann;
James Lance as Lachlan Glendenning;
Rory McCann as Kenny McLeod;
Saskia Mulder as Fist de Grooke;
Derek Riddell as Rab;
Des Hamilton as Jackie McCann;
Gotti Sigurdarson as Lars;
Henry Ian Cusick as Miles Longmuir;
Jack McElhone as Wee Jackie;
Karen Kilgariff as Jean Pettengill;
Lars Oostveen as Bart van Dongen