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Product Description We are introduced to Janice Beard at her ill-starred beginnings. Her father dies of a heart attack during her birth which plunges her mother into a post-natal, post-mortem agoraphobic depression that lasts 23 years. Determined to earn the money for her mothers treatment, Janice sets off into the work force with no skills or experience with disastrous results. Struggling to win everyone over, she thinks she has found love with the mail room boy but has actually become a pawn in an industrial espionage scheme that could ruin the company. Can little Janice find a cure for her mother, save the company and find true love in the bargain? Anything is possible! .com Janice Beard 45 WPM is a film for anyone who ever swam in the typing pool. It also provides reassurance that anyone who works in an office isn't alone in feeling alone. Scottish Janice (newcomer Eileen Walsh) suffers a never-ending bad hair day while temping at Kendon Motors during a car launch. She's earning pennies for her agoraphobic mother, to whom she sends elaborately staged videos fibbing about her successes in the big world. So simple a life gets complicated by the evil machinations of typing-pool shark Julia (a fantastic Patsy Kensit), and the dangerous allure of office boy Sean (Rhys Ifans sporting the same haircut from Notting Hill). An industrial espionage subplot tugs the light-hearted tone downward only very occasionally. Co-written and directed by first-timer Clare Kilner, on its original release this became a film festival favorite thanks to its dizzy charm (especially Walsh), for seeing the Kensit of Absolute Beginners struggle at a salsa class, and for opening with the line: "My father died in childbirth." --Paul Tonks
D**E
Impossible and Implausible Made Real and Believeable
This was a fun and interesting flick made fun and interesting by the leading lady and her wacky coworkers. No belly laughs but my comedic moments. I enjoyed it.
O**A
Middle of the road British comedy.
I find most British comedies slower an less laughable than not and this held that theme. I had it on as background and it's suitable for that but holding an interest would be hard without hand work at least.
K**R
Janice Beard
This was one of the most boring movies I've ever tried to watch, and in fact, was watching it with someone who agreed with me. "Janice Beard" - and what was the point? Should have left her out, and just had Rhys Ifans.
F**Y
Not sure why the excitement
This movie was simple and without much punch. I would guess if you hadn't been to a movie in the past 12 years, it would be cute. It just seemed flat. Not good, not bad... just flat. I kept asking myself, "Why did someone take to the time to fim and tell this story?"
E**K
Zen Innocence
This film has been described as a British Amelie and that blurb is true in both respects: the main eponynomous Janice Beard captures the sensibilities of the British in the way Amelie captured the ethos of the French. The film is very well written, but it lives and dies on the performance of Eileen Walsh as Janice. And on that basis, it not only lives but it shines. These fairy tale movies can so easily devolve into a Hallmark card. This movie walks a tightrope over that danger. My only quibble is that the DVD does not include subtitles, and I know I missed a lot because I couldn't decipher much of the dialogue. Enjoy.
N**A
Not recommended
Silly, forgettable, wouldn't recommend, the trailer is better than the movie
C**N
sujet décevant
je n'ai pas aimé ce film que je juge un peu simplet. Même le personnage de Rhys Ifans est trop "léger"
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