Introducing the Dwights

An already-unstable household becomes a virtual battle zone when the son of a risqué comedienne and a has-been singer finds mom meddling in his love life in director Cherie Nowlan's dysfunctional romantic comedy. Twenty-one-year-old Tim Dwight (Khan Chittenden) comes from a peculiar family; his ...more

Introducing the Dwights is a peculiar title for a film that never properly introduces its characters, opening with the unnerving sense of being somewhere in act two. Its working title, Clubland, would also be a fairly significant case of false advertising. What this film is about, if it's about anything, is a nasty shrew (Brenda Blethyn) who doesn't want her son (Khan Chittenden) to date a pretty young girl. Why she doesn't is never explored. That she's a washed-up lounge act fearing old age, ...more