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Book Group (The)

Country: UK, Language: English, 24 mins

  • 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