Romantic comedy starring Karen Gillan and Stanley Weber. When publisher Thomas Duval learns his only bestselling author, Jane Lockhart, has writer's block, he decides that her life needs to take a turn for the worse so her talents can return. However, the more misery he creates, the more his feelings for Jane grow.
This light tale takes the premise that great novels emerge from the minds of tortured, unhappy individuals, rather than well-adjusted, happy people. Karen Gillan plays a Scottish author who has drawn on her traumatic early years and troubled relationship with her father (Gary Lewis) to write a bestseller. The problem for her dishy publisher (Stanley Weber) is that, on the back of her success, Gillan has become extremely happy and is suffering from a serious case of writer's block. So he surreptitiously sets out to sabotage her life in order to make her unhappy - and productive - again. Gillan has the attractive, ditzy qualities of a Scottish Audrey Hepburn, but while she is utterly charming as the happy, kooky girl-about-town, it is impossible to believe in her as the author of a piece of bestselling misery - and it doesn't help that she could still pass as a teenager. Her publisher is so mean-spirited that it is difficult to accept that even the most naive young girl would be attracted to him, no matter how good he might look. However, despite the film's flaws, Gillan's passion, director John McKay's nice touches and some attractive Glasgow locations just about save the day.
| role | name |
|---|---|
| Jane Lockhart | Karen Gillan |
| Thomas Duval | Stanley Weber |
| Roddy | Iain De Caestecker |
| Darsie | Amy Manson |
| Willie | Henry Ian Cusick |
| Benny Lockhart | Gary Lewis |
| Anna La Fevre | Kate Dickie |
| Nicola Ball | Freya Mavor |
| Mr McLeish | John Bett |
| Dr Klinsch | Louise Goodall |
| role | name |
|---|---|
| Director | John McKay |
