She tries, even going so far as to make a trip to Paris, France to enjoy her „freedom“ and ends up almost making it with a Frenchman until she decides at a crucial moment to pack her bags and return to the waiting arms of her boy toy organist (KENNY DOUGHTY). He reminds me of a handsomer but blander version of Johnny Depp.
When another more direct plan to convince their friend that she’s making a mistake backfires, the plot veers off into tragedy before gradually resuming a lighter tone as the friends stop bickering and decide to resolve their problems by enjoying a gin and tonic and „fags“ (cigarettes in U.S.A.). We’re left with the notion that the best way for all three to solve their problematic out of control lives is to simply sit back, and, in the words of Fagin, „shut up and drink yer gin“. Continue reading „It’s Doughty who gives the most natural performance as the sad-eyed, sensitive and unpolished guy with the raging hormones“