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Drama, Comedy 99 min
Rotten Tomatoes19%Metacritic34IMDb
Two brothers. One legacy. Lots of spirit.
After thirty-five years abroad, Donal returns to his native Scotland to make amends with his estranged brother Sandy.
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When "Donal" (Alan Cumming) discovers from his daughter that his long estranged brother isn't keeping so well, he heads back from the States where he had a successful club (until it caught fire) to the Scottish family brewery he abandoned some forty years earlier. His daughter "Amy" (Alexandra Shipp) and his granddaughter "Sasha" (Alexandra Wilkie) have long maintained a relationship with "Sandy" (Brian Cox) but for "Donal" this is going to be quite a traumatic reconciliation, and once he arrives at their beautiful Highland home he realises that he has some fence mending to do. His arrival also reintroduces him to his childhood friend "Jess" (Shirley Henderson), now a master blender, with whom he obviously had a closer relationship in days gone by but whom he also left in the lurch decades earlier. Now, with this picturesque and torrid scene set, what plays out is really predicable. Sure, there is some gorgeous photography of the pristine highlands, but the substance of the plot offers us little more than a typical dysfunctional family melodrama peppered with nowhere near enough of the sharp wit the Scots are renowned for. Cumming spends much of the film relying on his prop cigaret
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