One review on 18 Feb 2023

UK 2018

Running time: 100 mins

Wild Rose

Director : Tom Harper 

Setting: Glaspow, London, Nashville
Summary: 20 something glaswegian mum with 2 kids and a prison tag dreams of making the big-time in Nashville as a country singer.


Cast:

  • Jessie Buckley  Rose-Lynn
  • Julie Walters  Maureen (Rise-Lynn's mum)


Aspect Ratio: 2.35 (anamorphic)

Colour: Colour

Sound: Stereo

Camera: Digital



First Seen: Sat 18th Feb 2023
Catalogued: 19th Feb 2023

Synopsis

Fresh out of prison Rose-Lyn is determined to pick up where she left off as a country singer in the Glsgow old-opry, but they won't have her back and her mum is determined she should take resonsibility for her kids who she has been minding whilst Rose-Lynn was in jail.

She gets her a job as a cleaner, but her new employer (a middle class female twat) takes to her and helps her get to see Bob Harris DJ at the BBC and to raise money for a trip to Glasgow.

Finally R-L realises she has to step up for her kids  and walks out on the garden party fund-raising gig her mentor has arranged.

Eventually her mum relents and gives her the money to go to Nashville, but when she gets there she realises its not possible to break in there and she has to do it her own way so leaves to go home.

In a coda we see a a year on performing with her band and playing guitar and signing her own song at a Celtic Connections gig to a rapturous reception - fame beckons. 

Reviews

by rogerco on Sat 18th Feb 2023 DVD proj @ home

Entertaining but Inconsequential

Summary

Pretty formulaic, but well executed and performed.

Full review

The Jessie Buckley Julie Walters mother-daughter tensions are well played, the story solid and avoids veering too far into cliche star-is-born territory.