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Forgive and Forget (2000) (TV)
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Mark Burt (writer)
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3 January 2000 (UK)
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David O'Neil, a plasterer and mature student Theo have been best mates for fourteen years and are practically inseparable...
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More Forgettable than Forgivable!
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Steve John Shepherd | ... | David O'Neil |
| John Simm | ... | Theo |
 | Laura Fraser | ... | Hannah |
 | Maurice Roëves | ... | Michael O'Neil |
 | Ger Ryan | ... | Ruth O'Neil |
| Meera Syal | ... | Judith Adams |
 | Nikki Amuka-Bird | ... | Emma |
| Annette Bentley | ... | Michelle |
| Isabella Marsh | ... | Gabby |
| Roger Griffiths | ... | Carlton |
| Stephen Graham | ... | John |
| Huggy Leaver | ... | Paul |
 | Charles De'Ath | ... | Alex (as Charlie De'Ath) |
| June Page | ... | Carol |
| Paul Panting | ... | Gerry |
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Note: contains spoiler.... 'Forgive and Forget' is on balance, more forgettable than forgivable. Made for Scottish Television (and a boring, Scot version of a BBC drama) by a married female director from a screenplay by a hetero male film student and starring a hetero actor (get a clue here!), the story goes on interminably about how a working class Brit is hopelessly in the closet and jealous of his best mate's live-in girlfriend, whom he's out to undercut by exploiting her paranoia and dislike of his male camaraderie with her boyfriend. It's the British version of a Jerry Springer mentality in the working class subculture which leads, inexorably, to a disastrous coming out on a true-confessions-type TV show called (would you believe) 'Forgive and Forget.' What's sad is that our hero is so naive (and hopelessly inarticulate) that he thinks coming out to his romantic interest on TV will somehow produce a happy ending. No way, Jose. Hetero Sex Object wields a lead pipe and almost kills the guy before girlfriend, appearing miraculously just in time to stop him from murder, leads hetero heartthrob off stage (and, we imagine, to a 'happily ever after'). By this point, since she's already dumped him, she's almost a deus ex machina, and her appearance has no motivation except to save male heterosexuality from life imprisonment (where, no doubt, he would be forced to become some macho guy's 'sex object'). Sorry, but I really didn't like the 'film' (shot on video, no less), including the videography, which was brightly lit and boringly, competently uninteresting. Next time, I'll think twice about believing the hype (here's a clue: the video retailer--whose blurb rating the film I didn't question--is also the film's distributor) and give a movie the old eyeball before showing it to my friends. If you want a far better, and yet more gritty story of coming out in a British working class context, try 'Beautiful Thing'.