Sunshine on Leith (2013)
Directed by Dexter Fletcher
Davy and Ally have to re-learn how to live life in Edinburgh after coming home from serving in Afghanistan. Both struggle to learn to live a life outside the army and to deal with the everyday struggles of family, jobs and relationships. Sunshine on Leith is based on the sensational stage hit of the same name, featuring music by pop-folk band The Proclaimers.
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Director Dexter Fletcher ("Sunshine on Leith") keeps things enjoyably hurtling forward, even when the otherwise engaging script by Sean Macaulay and Simon Kelton overworks a cliché, shorthands certain practical and financial matters, or proves a bit one-note, as it does in its portrayal of England's snobby, disdainful Olympic committee.
In his directorial follow-up to 2013's Sunshine on Leith, veteran English actor Dexter Fletcher camouflages the overly simply dynamic with smart touches that get across the bewildering idea of a sport where you counter-intuitively lean forward to fly further.
Directed by Dexter Fletcher, the man behind the unlikely 2013 hit Sunshine on Leith, a military musical featuring songs by The Proclaimers, this film too feels as if the characters might burst into song at any moment.
Through Wild Bill and Sunshine On Leith , Fletcher has shown himself a director who likes to hope for a happy ending, whatever gloom might block it from view, which makes him the ideal match for this material.
Bohemian Rhapsody endured a troubled production in that director Bryan Singer (X-Men) was fired and replaced by Dexter Fletcher (Sunshine on Leith) part way through the shoot.
Dexter Fletcher was drafted in to steady what looked to be a sinking ship and those familiar with his feelgood milieu, particularly the sporting underdog comedy Eddie the Eagle and The Proclaimers musical, Sunshine on Leith , will sense his welcome presence at the tiller.
That director Bryan Singer (of the X-Men films) was fired from the production weeks before its completion, with Sunshine on Leith ’s Dexter Fletcher stepping in to finish the film, is the most exciting thing about his bland Queen biopic.