Marketed by the Edinburgh Film Festival as Scotland’s answer to Love, Actually, Fast Romance follows a series of intertwining love stories, each thread somehow linked to the eponymous Fast Romance, a Glasgow-based speed-dating service. As is to be expected from any such ensemble comedy some subplots are more successful than others. More-so than in the case of it’s spiritual predecessor, however, Fast Romance is noticeably lacking in actual plot.
When Gordon Boyd (William Ruane), an unorganised postman who may – at a stretch – qualify as the main character, comes across a pen bearing the brand Fast Romance outside the address of Nadine (Jo Freer), a customer he fancies, he decides to give the service a go in the hope of winning her affections. Forced into taking boss Mr. You’d-Better-Call-Me-Kenny Cairnes (Derek Munn) with him, Boyd is joined at the event by a timid copy-girl, a begrudgingly dutiful bride-to-be,...
When Gordon Boyd (William Ruane), an unorganised postman who may – at a stretch – qualify as the main character, comes across a pen bearing the brand Fast Romance outside the address of Nadine (Jo Freer), a customer he fancies, he decides to give the service a go in the hope of winning her affections. Forced into taking boss Mr. You’d-Better-Call-Me-Kenny Cairnes (Derek Munn) with him, Boyd is joined at the event by a timid copy-girl, a begrudgingly dutiful bride-to-be,...
- 6/15/2011
- by Steven Neish
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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