Adult Life Skills Page #5

Synopsis: Anna is stuck: she's approaching 30, living like a hermit in her mum's garden shed and wondering why the suffragettes ever bothered. She spends her days making videos using her thumbs as actors - thumbs that bicker about things like whether Yogi Bear is a moral or existential nihilist. But Anna doesn't show these videos to anyone and no one knows what they are for. A week before her birthday her Mum serves her an ultimatum - she needs to move out of the shed, get a haircut that doesn't put her gender in question and stop dressing like a homeless teenager. Naturally, Anna tells her Mum to "back the f-off". However, when her school friend comes to visit, Anna's self-imposed isolation becomes impossible to maintain. Soon she is entangled with a troubled eight year old boy obsessed with Westerns, and the local estate agent whose awkward interpersonal skills continually undermine his attempts to seduce her.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director(s): Rachel Tunnard
Production: Pico Pictures
  5 wins & 7 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.2
Rotten Tomatoes:
81%
Year:
2016
96 min
510 Views


Oh my God, Oh my God, Oh my God,

Wot the f***'s up with you?

We're gonna hit the sun.

F***in' hell.

You need to read "On the Beach".

That sounds nice.

It's the story about some people waitin'

for the arrival of a deadly radiation.

- Wot?

- And how they deal with their impending death.

Oh my God.

They just went on picnics and

did gardening and stuff.

- Wot?!

- Basically, you need a goal... like Rocky.

- Oh my God.

- Rocky trains to win a fight,

and in doing it he regains self respect,

and makes peace with

the person he'll never become.

Adrian says that in "Rocky 3".

When she finally grows a pair.

When she wears that great coral lipstick.

When she's finally given some lines.

When she wears that nice necklace.

What are you doin' you nufter?

You need to look after this little dude cuz

he's drivin' the other kids mental

and Alice is gonna kill him.

Could you stop that?

I'm bored.

Well,

Why 'it you draw her a picture?

I'm not drawin' a picture,

people in the clinic,

see what my feelin's are

doin' inside.

Well, why don't you draw her a flower?

Or a, or a rainbow?

Can I have one of them?

You missed a bit.

You missed another bit.

And there.

Mmm.

Don't say anything.

Wot on Earth have you been doin'?

Honest to...

- Come 'ere.

- Ugh!

Mom!

Ahh, that is rank!

I don't believe it!

How are ya!

You look fantastic!

Doesn't she look well?

Yeah, of course you can.

Mind your fingers.

Your face is so slim now

I can't get over it.

Aw, thanks.

Yeah, I got dysentery

while I was in India.

It was great.

When do you go back to

London and start work?

Well, actually, I gonna

have a bit of a career change.

Yeah?

Yeah, I just got into a really...

energized headspace when I was away.

Yeah, I'm gonna retrain as a coreographer.

You know, got a yoga teacher.

I'm rebootin'.

This is a good time

to make a fresh start.

I think...

Anna's problem is that

her childhood ambition was to be rescued

by David Hasselhoff of "Baywatch".

I wanted to be David Hasselhoff.

If that isn't the cause of an existential

crisis I don't know what is.

Anna needs a way

to motivate herself.

I can hear ya.

Anna's got a way to motivate herself.

Yeah, she just thinks of

Patrick Swayze topless.

Not in "Point Break" though,

that makes me wanna vom.

Why can't you be more like Fiona?

What, go away for 2 years and

shack up with a fat South African?

No, I didn't mean that.

Well, she's just focused, isn't she?

Leave her alone.

Anna's just having a little think

about what she wants.

Aren't ya Anna?

Wot I want is for you to leave me alone.

Right.

Well, I'll leave you alone

while you look 'round this.

Wot?!

I never thought you'd

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