Weekend Breaks

Synopsis

Martin Dawson is a promising academic and aspiring film writer. He's married into TV royalty but an extra-marital fling has left him trying to patch things up with his wife and his disapproving working class parents. In a comedy about culture clashes, love, lust and the Lake District, Weekend Breaks sees Godber at his perceptive best, as Martin rediscovers his roots and what it actually means to love your parents; even when you really want to kill them!

Our Review:

Paul Couch - 15 February 2012

Many of us can sympathise with Martin Dawson. He’s 33 years old and his elderly parents are still nagging him to get a proper job. Martin, played by Robert Hudson, is a drama teacher-cum-aspiring TV writer and has just gone through an acrimonious relationship break-up. His bolt-hole in Whitby, North Yorkshire, may be only 90 miles from his parents’ in Doncaster but they may as well be on different planets, and his work trips to London are in a galaxy far, far away.

Crone-mum Joan (Christine Cox) has warned from the start that Martin was getting ideas above his station and is now languishing in scathing “I-told-you-sos” and laying into Martin’s self-esteem at any and every opportunity. Bland curmudgeon-dad Len ([William Ilkley)] is the only thing keeping Joan and himself from an early grave as tensions mount on the eponymous weekend break at Martin’s coastal cottage.

It’s not that Martin doesn’t love his parents; he&#...

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