Come Rain Come Shine (2010)

Recommended

UK

Television Film

Director: David Drury

Writer: Jeff Pope

Cinematographer: Tony Coldwell

Composer: Edmund Butt

Cast: David Jason, Alison Steadman, Shaun Evans, Anna Wilson-Jones, Kellie Bright, Drew Blackall, Sally Oliver, Kate Miles, Freddie Annobil-Dodoo

Coming across like a slightly sentimentalised Noda Kōgo script, though crucially lacking Ozu’s light touch behind the camera, and switched from post-war Japan to post-credit crunch South London, this ITV drama gently sings an ode to family and the value of not living beyond one’s means, as it engagingly depicts a prodigal son’s fall from grace when his property development speculations fall through. Iain.Stott