Very Annie Mary

Very Annie Mary is a 2001 comedy film and musical from the United Kingdom, written and directed by Sara Sugarman and starring Rachel Griffiths and Jonathan Pryce. It is a comingofage tale, set in south Wales, about a woman in her 30s who lives with her verbally abusive father. It was filmed on location in Bridgend and at Workingmans Institute and Memorial Hall, Newbridge, Wales.

The film was shot in summer 1999, with filming taking place in the Garw Valley in Bridgend, Wales, posing as the fictional village of Ogw a play on the name of the Ogmore Valleys Welsh name of Ogwr. It was scheduled to be presented at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival and the Dinard Festival of British Cinema but failed to show at either event.Variety magazine called it a halfklutzy, halfengaging eccentric comedy...bolstered by good turns from leads Rachel Griffiths and Jonathan Pryce but falling prey to a general disorganization in tone and structure. The Guardian called it a broad comedy with a very derivative Montyish plot, but likeable and goodnatured. The New York Times called the film alternately mushy and farcical with an undertone of satire that keeps the film from choking on its own cuteness it churns up a few genuinely funny bits including a climax that is almost worth waiting for. ........

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