Sandra Goldbacher has followed up her confident, distinctive debut The Governess
with this enjoyable, feelgood comedy: a bittersweet tale of two best friends who grow up
amongst the ever-changing pop culture of the 1970s and 1980s. Dawson's Creek star Michelle
Williams does a very good English accent as Holly, the bookish Jewish girl who has an
intense relationship with her sexier best mate Marina: Anna Friel, who journeys further
into shriekingly neurotic AbFab mode as her character get older. (Stella McCartney is
thanked in the closing credits for "Chloe"). There are many nicely observed
touches, but nothing too obvious: no Spacehoppers, thank heavens. We get strong,
sympathetic supporting turns from Allan Corduner, as Holly's gentle, understanding dad,
and Trudie Styler as Marina's mutton-dressed-as-trendy-lamb mum. It's impossible not to
like a film with Wreckless Eric's Whole Wide World on the soundtrack.