Seagull

Seagull uses a sleepy Kent seaside town as it's backdrop rather than the usual London cityscape, and to good effect. The personal relationships between the main characters in the family are tense and occasionally disturbing, and as the story escalates to the inevitable final showdown you get the unsettling feeling that things are going to go very wrong indeed for all concerned. It's a small-scale independent film with a committed cast, and you can tell that everyone involved gave it everything. Jessica Hynes' character is indeed very different from those we are normally used to seeing her play.