Hunky Dory 2011 Watch Free in HD

Vivenne is a teacher of Welsh comprehensive high school in the long hot summer of 1976. She determines to bring back the rock and rolls to the year end show by putting on a glamorous musical version of Shakespeare's The Tempest with help from her young distracted students.

Genre:

Comedy, Musical, Drama

Actors:

Minnie Driver, Kristian Gwilliam, Aneurin Barnard, Tom Rhys Harries, Adam Byard, Danielle Branch, Kimberley Nixon, Kayleigh Bennett, Darren Evans, Dafydd Llyr-Thomas, Robert Pugh, ...»

Director:

Marc Evans

Country:

United Kingdom

Release:

2011

IMDb:

6.2

Quality:

Duration:

110 min

New York Times

At various moments this endearing but sudsy movie, which spills all over the place, evokes "High School Musical," "Glee" and "Billy Elliot."

March 21, 2013

Flicks.co.nz

It's pleasant, forgettably feelgood and unabashedly hackneyed, doing everything you expect it to - nothing more, nothing less.

December 02, 2012

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Shockya.com

A period piece spin on Glee, as filtered through the gauzy lens of underclass-artistic-exuberance that's plagued a subset of comedic-leaning British imports ever since Billy Elliot.

April 15, 2013

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New York Post

The golden-hued cinematography (a filming cliché that really needs to be retired) and the sometimes slack direction by Marc Evans are minuses ...

March 22, 2013

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Spirituality and Practice

An appealing drama set in Wales in 1976 about a high school rock opera version of Shakespeare's The Tempest.

March 20, 2013

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AV Club

Director Marc Evans and screenwriter Laurence Coriat fumble both the musical side of their movie and the coming-of-age side.

March 21, 2013

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ReelTalk Movie Reviews

Although not perfect, 'Hunky Dory' offers much to admire. For example, the film's glorious finale almost took my breath away.

March 22, 2013

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NPR

Hunky Dory flits along blithely from number to transporting musical number until it ends - with a sigh - and dodges any authentic engagement with its own ideas.

March 21, 2013

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New York Daily News

Enthusiasm carries the day in this paint-by-numbers period tale, which is just charming enough to coast on its own clichés.

March 21, 2013

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Blu-ray.com

Dory has a spark that never catches fire, leaving the bulk of its personality up to Driver and her interesting take on the often strange moods of this coming-of-age musical drama.

November 15, 2012

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WBAI Radio

A lyrically and emotionally intense coming of age tale. Touching on a teacher's struggle against the educational establishment in a search for the liberating musical self-expression of her students.

March 29, 2013

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Los Angeles Times

Golden-hued, feel-good treacle, the sort that the U.K. has tried to export ever since Billy Elliot.

March 22, 2013

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