Goodness knows how a film starring Sam Neill, Helena Bonham Carter and Kristin Scott Thomas (with Steve Coogan and Martin Clunes in featured roles) failed to secure a cinema release over here - but this one did the trick, and, even more surprisingly, it's not all that bad. Fusing two plays by Alan Ayckbourn, it centres on Neill and Bonham Carter as a couple of would-be suicides who instead of topping themselves, meet up and decide to take revenge on each other's nemeses: a sort of black comedy version of Strangers on a Train. The film looks good, but never quite shakes off its stage origins. Often drily amusing though, and worth a look, even if the incessant bad language does get a bit wearing. Watch out for one-time EastEnder Anita Dobson as Daphne Teal.

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