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Chuck Chuck Baby

Artemis Films

United Kingdom

English

Louise Brealey

Annabel Scholey

Sorcha Cusack

Celyn Jones

Emily Fairn

Emily Aston

Edyta Budnik

Beverly Rudd

Cat Simmons

Sandie Lavelle

Gemma Lawman

Anthony Gray Hawley

Zella Whitfield

Ewan Thompson-Guest

Trish Pope

Zoe Dingwall

Janis Pugh

Susan Simnett

Andrew Gillman

Rebecca Lloyd

Rebecca Wright

Rosie Higgins

Jim Reeve

Kathleen Glynn

Lorcan Kavanagh

Adam Partridge

Kimberley Warner

Caroline Steiner

Mandy Cole

Isabel Alsina-Reynolds

Anne Beresford

Peter Burgis

Peggy Cafferty

Sarah Cunningham

Lucy Gahagan

Franziska Treutler

Max Fisher

Mary Fisher

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"Helen" (Louise Brealy) wakes up in the morning in what looks like a bedsit, with a suitcase of her meagre possessions tucked under the mattress. A chubby chav walks in on her and we discover that this is, in fact, her husband "Gary" (Celyn Jones) who has banished her to the spare room so he can live with his teeny-pop girlfriend "Amy" (Emily Fairn) and their brand new baby. Needless to say, she's not an happy woman but she puts up with all of this so she can stay close to his ailing mother "Gwen" (Sorcha Cusack) who's bedridden and clearly not too long for this world. Her only real moments of joy come from her work. She works with a tightly knit group of women packing chickens. The routine mundanity of that job leads the four of them to play daft games and try to chivvy each other along to alleviate the boredom - especially on a nightshift! Then a bit of a bombshell arrives in the form of "Joanne" (Annabel Scholey). Despite a rather frosty reunion, it's obvious that there is some baggage between these two women and the rest of the film infills some of the backstory of both women augmented by some frequently laugh out loud comedy. The principal culprit of the humour is "Paula" (Beverly Rudd) - rough around the edges but with an heart of gold and some of the best lines from an entertainingly written script. The plot is fairly predictable, though auteur Janis Pugh does throw a few spanners in the works to keep it interesting, and there are some semi-musical theatre style numbers as the story occasionally uses it's decent soundtrack to advance the story - usually to epitomise the unhappiness of "Helen". It's well cast with a solid supporting effort, a tiny bit of social commentary and a rather queazy rapport between the girls and one of those plastic heads kids used to used to practice their make-up skills on. It could also serve as a pretty good advert for never eating chickens - the things these women get up to plucking these birds could put you off for ever!

Notes on a Scene: Janis Pugh on her upcoming feature CHUCK CHUCK BABY

Louise Brealey and Janis Pugh on CHUCK CHUCK BABY

Director Janis Pugh on her feature film CHUCK CHUCK BABY

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Louise Brealey

Annabel Scholey

Sorcha Cusack

Celyn Jones

Emily Fairn

Emily Aston

Edyta Budnik

Beverly Rudd

Cat Simmons

Sandie Lavelle

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