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Introducing the Dwights: Comedic drama. Starring Brenda Blethyn, Khan Chittenden, Emma Booth and Richard Wilson. Directed by Cherie Nowlan. (R. 108 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) Jean Dwight -- a ...

Right at the beginning, “Introducing the Dwights” turns the volume up to “screech” and then never turns it down. Certainly, it’s true that fine movies can be made about characters you wouldn’t want on ...

Brenda Blethyn is a force of nature, which is simultaneously the best and worst part of the Australian comedy “Introducing the Dwights.” As Jean Dwight, a once-promising comedian still hungry for the ...

JEANIE DWIGHT (Brenda Blethyn) works as a short-order cook in a Sydney cafeteria, but she used to be a comedy star and wishes she still was. Everything that’s funny and sad about “Introducing the ...

Where the heck did this come from?! One of my favorite romantic comedy independent movies from Sundance, Clubland (read my review here), just announced a name change to Introducing the Dwights. The ...

As in her first feature (known alternately as “Thank God He Met Lizzie” and “The Wedding Party“), Nowlan gears the audience up for silly, obnoxious antics only to slowly strip away the superficially ...

Introducing the Dwights-- an Australian import directed by Cherie Nowlan from a screenplay by Keith Thompson -- is a comedy about a larger-than-life mother struggling to deal with her meek eldest ...

Whenever Brenda Blethyn steps onto the screen, she makes it impossible to pay attention to anyone else, and that isn't entirely a compliment. Since her breakthrough role in Mike Leigh's Secrets & Lies ...

Introducing the Dwights is a heartfelt comedy about a mother who tries to come between her son and his coming of age. Tim’s mom, Jean, is a bawdy and risqué comedienne still hoping to make it big. His ...

A first impression of the titular family in Cherie Nowlan’s Introducing the Dwights (formerly known as “Clubland”) has one imagining the film will be a sunny, Aussie-style quirkfest in the vanilla ...

Why is it that movies about comedians are never very funny? In the Aussie import Entertaining the Dwights, Brenda Blethyn plays Jean, a once-promising stand-up queen whose routine is full of hoary old ...