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Janice Beard 45 WPM (1999)
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29 October 1999 (Italy) moreTagline:
72% of Office Romances end in disaster. This started as one...Plot Keywords:
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3 wins & 3 nominations moreUser Comments:
Comedy with a heart, which doesn't get in the way of its wacky character and fast pacing. moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Eileen Walsh | ... | Janice Beard |
| Patsy Kensit | ... | Julia |
 | Rhys Ifans | ... | Sean |
| Sandra Voe | ... | Mimi |
 | David O'Hara | ... | O'Brien |
 | Frances Grey | ... | Violet |
| Zita Sattar | ... | Jane |
| Amelia Curtis | ... | June |
| Mossie Smith | ... | Dolores |
| Sarah McVicar | ... | Tracy |
 | Eddie Marsan | ... | Mr. Tense |
| Perry Fenwick | ... | Mr. Button |
| Maynard Eziashi | ... | Clive Morley |
| Robbie Barnett | ... | Janice's Father |
| Jean Murphy | ... | Midwife |
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This movie was recommended so heatedly to me that I was fairly forced to see it. Not knowing what to expect, I was charmed and dazzled by the script, the acting, and the goofy decor and colours. For any 'girl' who's ever worked in a brainless office job this will be a delight.
The lead actor is perfectly cast as the unsquashably optimistic Janice, totally sincere even while she's lying through her teeth, overwhelmed by the demands placed on her, outclassed by the other office girls, and at the same time unwavering in her mission to save her mum in whatever way she can.
It also works because of the pacing; the story begins at a steady pace and gradually accelerates until it is literally speeding along -- our heroine works for an auto manufacturing firm -- too fast to stop. There are enough plot twists and complications to qualify "Janice Beard 45 WPM" for a French farce except, that it's in Scottish (I think).
It's not Proust and it's not "Brideshead Revisited"; it's just one of the best comedies I've seen and I've been wanting to see it again since I first saw it in 1999.