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Cancer Minor 
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Paddy
Breathnach
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This is a
tale of everyday hairdressing folk who become obsessed with winning
the British Hairdressing Championship which has conveniently come to
their town of Keighley. It is important to know that Keighley is in
Yorkshire in the north of England because this film is a re-tread of
the "Full Monty". The difference is one is bleached the other
natural.
Shelley the estranged wife of Phil, both hairdressers, has cancer.
She's had chemo, been in remission and it's come back with a
vengeance; it's terminal.
The imminence of death is simply to underline the poignancy of her
reconciliation with Phil in the interests of winning the
competition. By the end after acres of ethnic 'characters' i.e.
northern English and a series of amusing and pointedly observed
situations (more inverted commas called for here) we don't see her
die. That would put the kibosh on the comforting ending.
The presence of some first class actors and a few good scenes
doesn't make this more than coffee made from acorns. And yes the
writer is the same as The Full Monty.
Early on Shelley does the hair of a blind woman who actually looks
to be really blind (cateracts?).
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