A pleasant film, if rather slow-moving and with some old fashioned feeling 1980s direction. As a stand-alone it works, although the low-key love affair has little chemistry, and the 63-year-old Penelope appears considerably older than this. It's a challenge to condense a lengthy saga novel into a little over an hour and a half, so it's inevitable that much of the (excellent) book of the same name has been cut. But although the basic story is much the same, there are some added scenes which didn't (indeed couldn't) happen in the book, which I found quite disturbing the first time I watched it.

Pleasant enough light viewing, rated U but unlikely to appeal to children or teens.

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