Rotten
Writer-director Jeremy Brock has backloaded much of the hero's family conflict into the final scenes, which collapse under the weight.
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
Overview
A shy teenage boy trying to escape the influence of his domineering mother, has his world changed when he begins to work for a retired actress.
Director and cast
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Top critics, in their words
48%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Driving Lessons is a poignant miniature that offers [Julie] Walters a chance to be typically wonderful - saucy but deep - and [Rupert] Grint to stretch quite commendably.
Tom Keogh, Seattle Times
Rotten
Barely worth the trip.
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel
Rotten
It's an exercise in calculated high-quirk in which the most egregious forms of stereotyping -- particularly along gender and religious lines -- attempt to pass for 'human' behaviour.
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star
Rotten
[Brock] sticks to the inspirational formula of contemporary English sentimental comedies: that real life has little relevance.
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail
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