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Monday, June 11, 2012

Sixty Six and Doc Martin

   At The Cinema                           



Two for you


This is a two minute trailer

Sixty Six  Plot

Bernie Reubens (Gregg Sulkin) a young Jewish boy is about to have his bar mitzvah. Initially, he meticulously plans a lavish reception to upstage that of his older brother Alvie (Ben Newton), but as the family's finances lurch from one disaster to another, the family is forced to lower Bernie's expectations and stage the bar mitzvah reception at home in North London. When England reach the 1966 football World Cup Final, most of the guests make excuses not to come to the reception so that they can watch the game.


I so thoroughly enjoyed this 2006 movie that I think I'll recommend it to you.  A great "Father's Day" film on the order of  Field of Dreams.  For me anyway.



While I'm at it  Now that I've exhausted Sherlock Holmes and Perot on NetFlix, "Doc Martin" has become my best television series of all time.  I'm up to episode 8 of 32 (I think) on NetFlix, and as the characters firm up, each new episode is better than the last. 

It was created based after the character of Dr. Martin Bamford in the 2000 comedy film Saving Grace. Martin Clunes plays Dr. Martin Ellingham, a brilliant and successful vascular surgeon at Imperial College London who develops haemophobia (a fear of blood), and as a result is forced to stop practicing surgery. He obtains a post as the General Practitioner (GP) in the sleepy Cornish village of Portwenn, where he spent childhood holidays with his Aunt Joan .  Clunes is brilliant.

5 comments:

  1. JerseyGirlAngie6/11/12, 9:43 AM

    Clunes is absolutely brilliant - as is the entire cast !

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  2. Indeed they are .. and that includes the dog

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  3. Six seasons of Foyle's War is now on Netflix. I liked the new Sherlock but I quickly ran thru the THREE episodes.

    Feddie Sykes

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  4. There is a future episode with the Doc's old aunt and a house painter that will......well, you just can't prepare yourself for it so I won't be the spoiler.

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  5. One tires of the endless hand-wringing by the shark-jumping end of the fifth season, but Clunes is great.

    As for "must see", The Last Days of WWII, all on Netflix.

    Casca

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