Rather a nice little movie, ideally suited to the television screen in its intimate drama, about four Polish workmen sent into England to `do up' a house for a quarter of what their boss would have to pay English workmen. Jeremy Irons plays their leader with an expression of permanent alarm on his face, trying desperately to make ends meet and keep papers (with news of the Solidarity suppression) away from his workmates, presumably on account of the pictures, as none of them speaks a word of English. Soon he is reduced to shoplifting, an occupation at which, although he develops a naive cunning, he bears a charmed life. These escapades, both tense and amusing, prove the most entertaining part of this interesting film, which forms a fascinating contrast to Irons' previous cinema success, opposite Meryl Streep in the much bigger budget The French Lieutenant's Woman.

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