Director: Ben Palmer
Writer: Tess Morris
Lake Bell is 34-year-old single Nancy who meets the nice 24-year-old Jessica (Ophelia Lovibond, still waiting to be cast as Bond girl purely on the basis of her name) on a train and after being gifted with her book Six Billion People And You, mistakenly meets Jack (Simon Pegg, who is also an executive producer) who is under the impression is that she is his blind date and Nancy goes along with it. Pegg also cracks a joke about train delay due to someone jumping onto the tracks, at which point anyone with a claim to decency would quite rightly have walked out and asked for a refund. The film is directed by Ben Palmer of the television sitcom The Inbetweeners (2008-2010) and its televisual 2011 theatrical feature and it is shot in its entirety in a white hazy focus that is as soft as the comedy. The moment in which Skyfall's Rory Kinnear is semi-nude in a public ladies' toilet wrapping a scarf around the necks of himself and Bell and pulling her close for reluctant kiss is when the sound should have cut out and as that film's theme music kicks in, Adele tells us "This is the end. Hold your breath and count to ten..." Kinnear had more dignity as the prime minister having offscreen sex with a pig in Black Mirror (2010). There is one laugh when, having met Jack's soon-to-be ex-wife and got confirmation that she had had an affair, Nancy ups the pretense that she is Jack's new girlfriend by being extra affectionate and Simon Pegg reminds us that he has a face for comedy (he can be a good dramatic actor too). Destined for the cheap section of the DVD shelves in Sainsbury's.
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