Suzie Gold DVD (2004) (1 Disc) (UK)

Starring: Lorelei King, Stanley Townsend
Director: Richard Cantor
Original UK Premiere: 2004
Dvd Release: 2nd August, 2004
Number Of Discs: 1
Format: PAL, Region 2 Encoding

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OK, so the press have torn into this film because My Big Fat Greek wedding got the ethnic stereotyping in first & Bridget Jones was a more likeable heroine. But this movie isnt as bad as the Fleet Street sourpusses would have you know & if you can ignore the dodgy characterisation, Suzie Gold presents a fairly sincere - & occasionally touching - view of the whole assimilation issue in 21st Century Britain.

Summer Phoenix holds it together despite being neither English or Jewish. She has an on screen charm & her accent holds up pretty well, even if she is let down by the fairly ordinary plotline & script. Most of the others in the cast are competent but have little to work. Iddo Goldberg, as Anthony Silver, grows into his role superbly & stands out as an engaging little creep.

The direction is generally good & the film moves at a steady pace although some of the scenes involving Suzie & her grandmother miss a trick, with some rather limp dialogue.

An entertaining if hardly life changing experience, Suzie Gold is a decent film & compares favourably with most of the British romcoms released each year. Perhaps the critics could have been a little more charitable.