A mildly amusing black comedy about a repressed Welsh librarian (didn't Peter Sellers once play one of those? ) who, rebelling against her nearest and dearest, receives help in bumping them off from the ghosts of some of Britain's most famous murderers. Jane Horrocks, fast developing into a latter-day Rita Tushingham, plays this lethal lady, beset at the outset by an impossible puritan mother (Brenda Fricker), who even drags her out of the local pub at lunchtime (what she's doing there herself is anyone's guess). Mummy clearly has to go and, though Jane's asthmatic, secretly scarlet sister (Imelda Staunton) helps her dump the corpse in the river, she's soon jealous of the attention her bisexual Chippendale boyfriend is giving Jane, and threatens to turn her in... Where will it all end? Horrocks is quite beguiling and Ian Abbey (the only convincing Welsh accent) excellent as the male stripper. But it's rather a raucous film with little room for subtlety. Not bad, though, in a sub-Ealing manner.


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