Will it change your life? No. But if you're in the market for undemanding storytelling, it's funny and watchable enough.
This slight, modestly sweet and mildly charming affair squarely aimed at the older cinemagoer is just the bill for those seniors’ matinées where the ticket comes with a cuppa and a biscuit.
The drawback here is the utter lack of pungency. This film doesn’t smell real at all.
Anything potentially good is drowned out by the determination of director Joel Hopkins’ to bathe everything in excruciatingly twee, sub-Richard Curtis fakery.
Hampstead desperately wants to be a heart-warming blend of Notting Hill and The Lady In The Van but is too twee and calculating to pull it off.
Based on a case of a real-life Hampstead Heath squatter, this treacly romcom starring Brendan Gleeson and Diane Keaton lacks Notting Hill sparkle.
Diane Keaton and Brendan Gleeson star as an unlikely couple in this prettified version of a homeless man’s story.
General release. Check local listings for show times.
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