are registered trademarks / copyright their respective rights holders. Get the freshest reviews, news, and more delivered right to your inbox! PHOTOS 35 of 2014s Most Anticipated Movies. Keep reading to find out what is coming up in the CBS soap opera . I usually hate 'career women are bitter and empty' type films, but not once did I not believe in her. All Charlotte wants from life is to be cut a slice of the media agency she has devoted herself to building. First-time director Steven Reeves crafts the suspense beautifully. Flickering Myth Rating Film: / Movie: . The life of a high-strung business executive spirals into a world of violence, blackmail, and murder, when she learns she has been betrayed at work. Maxine Peake is one of Britains best actresses and I have yet to see her in anything less than excellent. Starring Maxine Peake Blake Harrison Christine Bottomley Elisa Lasowski Sam Hoare. Elizabeth Baldwin (Rebecca Herbst) has a warning, Michael Corinthos (Chad Duell) wants to keep a promise, and Willow Tait (Katelyn MacMullen) finds there's hope. Kate Muir. Original Language: English. KEEPING ROSY is a drama thriller about a woman who has to deal with the unexpected consequences of her responsibility for an accidental death. Learn more. Stay up-to-date on all the latest Rotten Tomatoes news! His suspense devices work very well; the elevator, the tapes, the tape worker, and others. Wow what a great film! All very well done. The local star power of Peake and Harrison should generate interest domestically, but on its own merits, Keeping Rosy may prove a little too stagey and melodramatic for breakout success in other territories. I like Maxine Peake and the film started off well enough and I thought it might have turned into a good detective type of film, with Maxine getting deeper and deeper under suspicion. An essentially televisual affair, but there are chilly thrills to be had as director Steve Reeves and co-writer Mike Oughton make good on the promise of the award-winning short Taking Life. Outstanding Maxine Peake in Keeping Rosy. Charlotte is a woman who is completely defined by her career. Don't use this space to complain about the average rating, chart position, genre voting, others' reviews or ratings, or errors on the page. Tank Set-Up: Freshwater with plants and swimming space. It suffices to say, Keeping Rosy is a pleasant break from those two categories. Implausible storyline, littered with plot holes. Its very rare that an indie film comes along that is so straight-forward, so concise, so streamlined. The Young and the Restless (Y&R) spoilers for the next two weeks, February 27 to March 10, tease that Audra Charles (Zuleyka Silver) will grow increasingly suspicious of Nate Hastings (Sean Dominic) and Victoria Newman's (Amelia Heinle) relationship. Keeping Rosy. Independent. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. A certain depth is required to understand that this is real life, and real life is not the one that the every day irresponsible or the ignorant happy-go-lucky type believes it to be. [C], Watched by Bart Simpson 10 Dec 2020. When Charlotte's life disintegrates, we follow her on a heart-racing journey of self-discovery, atonement and danger. When Charlotte loses her job, it sparks off an unpredictable series of events that will change her life forever, for better or worse. Overview Gallery Chloe, better known online as RosyClozy, is a 25-year-old well-known GachaTuber from England, United Kingdom. Starring Maxine Peake, Blake Harrison, Elisa Lasowski and Christine Bottomley. Votes are used to help determine the most interesting content on RYM. Matt GlasbyTotal Film. I really enjoyed this awesome British movie. Featuring crisp cinematography by former Academy Award-nominee and Harry Potter veteran Roger Pratt, Keeping Rosy is technically polished and visually pleasing. I have to say I was completely blown away by this film. 10 Video Games That Need a Live Action Adaptation, 2023's Most Anticipated Sequels, Prequels, and Spin-offs. Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 Full Review | Jun 23, 2014. Jokes are fine, but don't post tactless/inappropriate ones. We have acquired the rights (at least for specific territories) from the rightholders by contract. [A] modestly scaled British thriller about a high-flying executive confronted with the rash decisions she makes on a really, really bad day. She isn't some stereotype, but a real person, living a real life, rich in money, yet poor in the things that make life worth living. Without getting into spoilers, Charlotte soon finds herself dumping a corpse in the river Thames and playing reluctant surrogate mom to a baby daughter. For Charlotte, life is just how she wants it. (107) 6.4 1 h 33 min 2014. Independent. This tale of a career woman who is made redundant gets less plausible with each succeeding disaster, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. The end was a surprise. A morally ambivalent lead character painted in elegantly spare strokes, Charlotte (Peake) wakes up in her chilly, impeccably tasteful apartment on the upper floors of a new high-rise in an anonymous corner of East London. wth are people looking for? Independent British films usually tend to be one of two things: 1) a depressing, pretentious piece of film-making that takes it self far too seriously for the sake of neo-realism, 2) a solely narrative film with very little depth or compulsion, i.e anything with Danny Dyer starring. I wouldn't mind if this movie actually contained some form of redemption. The actors were all great, especially Maxine Peake, who continues to produce fabulous work. and the Following an altercation between Charlotte and Maya, Charlotte's life takes a darker turn setting off a chain reaction of events that see her life spiralling out of control. And there was no bad violence gore or anything of the sort. 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All she wants from life is to be cut a slice of the media agency she has devoted herself to building. All Charlotte wants from life is to be cut a slice of the media agency she has devoted herself to building. General Hospital (GH) spoilers and updates for Wednesday, March 1 tease warnings, promises and hope in Port Charles. Superbly directed with an understated hand, the viewer is drawn into the clean, sterile and ultimately lonely world of 'Char'. I recorded this because Maxine Peake was in it and was so glad I did. | Original Score: 3/5 As Charlotte's life disintegrates, we follow her on a heart-racing journey of self-discovery, atonement and danger as she fights for a future that is rosy Charlotte is a woman who is completely defined by her career. I was determined to loathe the immaculate Charlotte yet, thanks to Peake, I found myself willing her on. Hey, weve all had crazy nights like that, right? Other flaws include the trite, doom-laden score and plausibility problems, but the cinematography is elegant, and the plushly bleak residential sections in London's Docklands make for an inspired choice of location. How will she react when the careful structure of her existence comes crumbling down around her? GH Spoilers - Dex Heller's Questions Dex Heller (Evan Hofer) has questions, as [] Mystery & thriller, British Independent Film Awards 2014 Nominations. The story line was exciting and not at all predictable. Watched by George Washington 01 Aug 2022. Full Review | Original Score: 3/5. Keeping Rosy (2014) Plot Showing all 3 items Jump to: Summaries (2) Synopsis (1) Summaries All Charlotte wants from life is to be cut a slice of the media agency she has devoted herself to building. Another unexpected visitor, her sister Sarah (Christine Bottomley), alerts Charlotte to the CCTV cameras in her apartment block. Certificate 15. Although undeniably gripping, things get more than a little far-fetched. I hadn't heard anything about it, and I'm glad I didn't. Matters are further complicated when an innocent child becomes involved. Third act--up and down (literally.) HoloLens PC Mobile device Xbox 360 Trailer. The film takes a typical thriller formula, the archetypal blackmail and modernizes it to great success. | Original Score: 3.5/5 The cast is small but excellent and it is gripping to the even more surprising end. Coming Soon. the Terms and Policies, and to receive email from Rotten Tomatoes. When she arrives home, she vents her anger out on her cleaner Maya whom Charlotte catches smoking in her apartment (despite Charlotte giving Maya a previous warning about not smoking in her apartment). We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. There's amassive, oh-my-God twist in the first 10 minutes that sets in motion a disastrous chain of events, which would be a shame to spoil because that first half hour is the best part. Try again. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9oKpDE8ydk Whattowatch Newsletter Maxine Peake stars as Charlotte, a career woman who is replaced in her position by one of her colleagues. Steve Reeves pilots a humble cast and a very tight script, while confined to only 3 or 4 different settings. Copyright Fandango. Directed by: Steve Reeves. , and to receive email from Rotten Tomatoes. Starring Maxine Peake, Blake Harrison, Elisa Lasowski and Christine Bottomley. This in mind, the film could be said to fall into that dreary and moody disposition that many British films fall into, as theres very rarely a moment of joy, jubilation or reprieve. Drama, But why would the cleaner carry a heavy bottle of champagne up to Peake's flat rather than leave it in her car? 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