This Year's Love (1999)

User Rating:

6.1/10   

Director:

David Kane

Writer:

David Kane (writer)

Release Date:

19 February 1999 (UK)

Genre:

Drama | Romance | Comedy

Tagline:

Your pad or mine?

Plot:

A group of thirtysomethings flit around Camden Town swapping partners in search of love, lust and life.

Plot Keywords:

Swapping | Love | Marriage | Lust | Search

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Dennica Abdo	...	Lady in supermarket
Annabelle Apsion	...	Hostess
Richard Armitage	...	Smug man at party
Matt Bardock	...	Billy's mate
Doreene Blackstock	...	Nurse
Paul Blair	...	Sweenie
Kathy Burke	...	Mary
Bryan Campbell	...	Teenager
Clune	...	Pub drummer
Matt Costello	...	Cooky
Sacha Craise	...	Check-Out girl
Angela Douglas	...	Annabel
Amanda Drew	...	Old friend
Jennifer Ehle	...	Sophie
Jamie Foreman	...	Billie
Gordon Fraser	...	Waiter in Restaurant
Alastair Galbraith	...	Willie
Bronagh Gallagher	...	Carol
Andy Gray	...	Banks
David Gray	...	Pub Singer
Ian Hart	...	Liam
Douglas Henshall	...	Danny
Nicholas Jones	...	James
Anne Lacey	...	Hannah's Aunt
Elaine Lordan	...	Kate (as Elaine Lourdan)
Eddie Marsan	...	Eddie
Catherine McCormack	...	Hannah
Billy McElhaney	...	Deaksy
Sophie Okonedo	...	Denise
Ruth Platt	...	Young girl
Gregg Prentice	...	Caleb
Dougray Scott	...	Cameron
Reece Shearsmith	...	Tourist
Jay Simpson	...	Auctioneer
Victoria Willing	...	Ward Sister
Emily Woof	...	Alice

Runtime:

108 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Iceland:12 | France:U | Germany:12 | Spain:18 | Switzerland:16 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:16 (canton of Vaud) | UK:18

Filming Locations:

Camden Town, Camden, London, England, UK

Company:

Entertainment Film Distributors

Trivia:

A huge star in the UK now, the then relatively unknown David Gray makes an appearance as the Singer/Guitar player in Kathy Burke's band. 'This Years's Love' is also one of his song titles.

Quotes:

[a sleepy Cameron is less than enthusiastic to find Mary in bed with him]
Mary: It's all right, mate. You've woken up with a fat bird. I'll get me coat.

Movie Connections:

References Crash (1996)

Soundtrack:

Chickens, Bones and Stones

How 2 performances can make a film

For me, this film was lifted by the performances of Ian Harte and Kathy Burke. Both of these actors have had interesting careers in which they've not always made the right choices and here the film would be a much slighter thing without them. Ian Harte is absolutely outstanding - you see him disintegrate before your eyes while Kathy Burke's self-hatred must resonate with many women. It makes a change to see a London that a lot of Brits would recognise with geography that makes sense (apart from the taxi to Heathrow from Camden perhaps?). For all I enjoyed films like Four Weddings and a Funeral, it's nice to see the country I actually live in represented more realistically on screen.