Hunky Dory
Vivenne is a teacher of Welsh comprehensive high school in the long hot summer of 1976. She determines to bring back the rock and rolls to the year end show by putting on a glamorous musical version of Shakespeare's The Tempest with help from her young distracted students.
13 March 1992, London, England, UK
1957, Hurstpierpoint, West Sussex, England, UK
21 January 1982, UK
March 22, 2013
Although not perfect, 'Hunky Dory' offers much to admire. For example, the film's glorious finale almost took my breath away.
March 22, 2013
The golden-hued cinematography (a filming cliché that really needs to be retired) and the sometimes slack direction by Marc Evans are minuses ...
March 21, 2013
Director Marc Evans and screenwriter Laurence Coriat fumble both the musical side of their movie and the coming-of-age side.
March 20, 2013
An appealing drama set in Wales in 1976 about a high school rock opera version of Shakespeare's The Tempest.
April 15, 2013
A period piece spin on Glee, as filtered through the gauzy lens of underclass-artistic-exuberance that's plagued a subset of comedic-leaning British imports ever since Billy Elliot.
March 22, 2013
Golden-hued, feel-good treacle, the sort that the U.K. has tried to export ever since Billy Elliot.
March 21, 2013
At various moments this endearing but sudsy movie, which spills all over the place, evokes "High School Musical," "Glee" and "Billy Elliot."
March 29, 2013
A lyrically and emotionally intense coming of age tale. Touching on a teacher's struggle against the educational establishment in a search for the liberating musical self-expression of her students.
November 15, 2012
Dory has a spark that never catches fire, leaving the bulk of its personality up to Driver and her interesting take on the often strange moods of this coming-of-age musical drama.
March 21, 2013
Enthusiasm carries the day in this paint-by-numbers period tale, which is just charming enough to coast on its own clichés.
December 02, 2012
It's pleasant, forgettably feelgood and unabashedly hackneyed, doing everything you expect it to - nothing more, nothing less.
March 21, 2013
Hunky Dory flits along blithely from number to transporting musical number until it ends - with a sigh - and dodges any authentic engagement with its own ideas.
