Our Girl (2013 TV Movie)
7/10
Our Girl
12 April 2013
Warning: Spoilers
Since leaving EastEnders the actress best known as Stacey Slater tried other projects, and not really with much success, Switch was dull, only an appearance in Being Human was interesting, but this one off film was her chance to improve. Basically eighteen year old Molly Dawes (Lacey Turner) lives with her family, pregnant mother Belinda (Kerry Godliman) and father Dave (Sean Gallagher) and five siblings, in the London Borough of Newham in a crowded council house, but none of them seem to have any future ahead, and she has Albanian boyfriend Artan (Daniel Black) asking to marry her. When she turns eighteen she has a birthday night out to celebrate, she ends up drunk and being sick, and she finds herself outside the doorway of an army recruitment office with a life size image of an army girl, the next day she returns there to be part of the army, and soon enough she is at an army training centre undergoing physical and mental activities, including long runs, maths tests and presentations about herself. While doing this Molly finds that she can come clean about what a hard life she has had and she gains support from her fellow aspiring soldiers, and in an interview she asks to be given a chance because she has never had one, and as her training goes on she finds that she finally has a purpose, to become a soldier. She does inform her parents of this decision and career choice, while her mother is supportive her father doesn't want to know, but their girl continues on to become a professional soldier serving in Afghanistan, and in the end she writes a potential "letter from the grave", this is where her father does listen and finally is proud of her. Also starring Matthew McNulty as Cpl. Geddings, Andrew Scarborough as Sgt. Peters, Branwell Donaghey as Sergeant Adams, Paul Fox as Sgt. Lamont, Stuart Ward as Lance Corporal Brammer, Steven Miller as Corporal Leech, Harry Ferrier as Chris Ingrams, Mimi Keene as Jade Dawes, McKell Celaschi-David as Dean and Harriet Madeley as Nat. Turner gives a really good performance as the young girl trying to find her way in the world, and finding a determination to achieve something no matter how difficult, I initially watched the first few minutes and thought I was going to get bored, but I luckily stuck with it and it was an interesting youth based near coming-of-age story, a watchable drama. Very good!
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