The highlight here is most certainly Julie Walters, who hams it up royally, and does a fine job of making her role as an aging actress more than just a cartoon character.

A warmly funny coming of age story as the ultra conservative clashes with the unconventional in a confluence of the unexpected

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Típica besteira de cinema independente que se julga mais inteligente e observadora do que é na realidade. O surpreendente é perceber que, enquanto Walters e Linney apelam para caricaturas, o jovem Grint oferece uma atuação sólida e envolvente.

Too many alcoholic outbursts and pitiful breakdowns wear down your patience.

The film is anchored by Walter's brilliant performance. She has a field day with this rambunctious, pampered yet terribly insecure woman. Grint is often reduced to playing straight man, but his reactions are priceless and the fact that he and Walters have

Writer-director Jeremy Brock has backloaded much of the hero's family conflict into the final scenes, which collapse under the weight.

The characterizations and comic situations both seem forced and labored.

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.

Will be remembered as the movie in which we got to see Ron Weasley utter the s-word and the f-word (numerous times); drink wine; and hook up with a Scottish hottie who introduces him to Nick Drake and sex (in that order).