Little Voice

Name: Little Voice
Director: Mark Herman
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Released: 1998
Duration: 1 h 32 min
Cast: Brenda Blethyn, Jane Horrocks, Ewan McGregor, Philip Jackson, Annette Badland

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Comedy
Drama

1998
Mark Herman
92 mins
15

Summary

Comedy drama starring Jane Horrocks, Brenda Blethyn, Ewan McGregor, and featuring Michael Caine. Painfully shy Little Voice has a secret talent: she can mimic famous singers perfectly. When oily would-be impresario - and her mother's new suitor - Ray Say learns of her ability, he pushes her into a public performance at the local club.

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A star rating of 4 out of 5.

Tom Hutchinson

In this comedy drama, Jane Horrocks reprises her stage performance as the reclusive girl whose virtuoso impersonations of the great singers - among them Shirley Bassey and Judy Garland - contrast with her almost total shyness. Her talents are belatedly recognised by sleazy agent Michael Caine, who's prepared to endure the attentions of her sexually predatory mother (Brenda Blethyn) as long as he can make some money out of that voice. The brilliance of Horrocks is slightly undermined by director Mark Herman's crude depiction of working-class life in a northern seaside town, while Blethyn's strident squawking almost threatens to drown out the more subtle, Cinderella-like undertones of the story. But there's good support from Jim Broadbent as a nightclub boss and Ewan McGregor as the bashful singer's would-be suitor. In any other country, this would have made Horrocks a major star.

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7.0/10

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