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Being a movie fans, I realized some good movies are being missed out, probably lack of promotion and not on Netflix. This is one of the good lovely movie people miss out. Just comfy when watching.

Chock full of cliches, but no worse for that, this coming of age movie follows five friends from Fort William over 24 hours as they venture to Edinburgh for a school choir competition and back home again. A few secrets are told, a few lessons are learned and a lot of laughs are had.

Probably a good 7.5 out of 10 if I could.

Started a little slowly and built as did the characters. Ok, I'm a boy, but the sex obsession seemed a little over the top, but it was fun and funny in places, but built to something more.

I am not sure what, bar friendships and coming of age, but I was left feeling thoughtful and moved. It's a worthy watch, and I would recommend it as such.

Not quite a catholic Train-spotting, light hearted fun film with a few cringe worth crude elements in this coming of age film.

Overall an enjoyable film but not worth standing in a queue.

Heartwarming coming of age movie about friendship between Catholic girls. Witty script with parts where I laughed out loud - when one of the girls mentioned Mad Cow's Disease was one. Its also got its poignant and touching parts too. Its quite a gem as its not very often when I come across movies like this - I am really so glad i did. I must say I have never seen any of these actresses act before, but they are all very good.

Being Scottish, I had to see this movie. It was fun to watch and it was definitely a good date night. Definitely worth a watch.

Wasn't sure what to expect... choir singing, a story about girls; but Scotland is always a great setting for a film and the Scottish accent is, for me, amazing.

The girls were superb in their acting and each role was played fantastically. The story was very good, very, very good in fact and it had funny moments and sad moments.

I highly recommend this film and i've given this a well-deserved 10 for acting, script, setting, filming, funny/sad bits, realism, and the 'impact' when the film ended.

I was so looking forward to this, having thoroughly enjoyed the play a few years ago.

Having been a teenage girl in Scotland in the 90s, I felt excited to see some of my generation's perspective on coming of age during that time represented on film.

It seems the 3 middle-aged male writers charged with adapting the novel and play (also male written) for film consulted no teenage girls in Scotland on how they think, talk, or speak!!

For the record, teenage Scottish girls swear and talk about sex, but we never ran around talking about wanting to shag and be shagged by random and multiple blokes!!

No, really!!

Not in the 90s, and not now!! Not at the age of 15-16 that these girls seem to be. Not in our 20s either, or at any other point in time! And I'm saying that as a very liberal woman who worked in sex education with teenagers in the late 90s and early 00s!!

Talk about male gaze, and some borderline dodgy wishful thinking on behalf of the writing team!

We had to turn it off after half an hour as this constant stream of 'I want shagged' claims throughout the group of girls (sincere or otherwise), was really getting on our tits! It undermined the credulity of all the characters and emerging plot lines (well-played by a great group of young Scottish actors I should say - no complaints over the performances from what we saw).

What a wasted opportunity to shine a light on girls and women, on Scotland, and on that place in time through the medium of film.

If you're going to put on a production about girls and women, try involving some in the writing and production!!

And a whip in the side of catholic school systems, the allmighty nuns, and a sprawling entertaining young choirgirls fantasies how the world of erotics and romantic functions.

The cast ensemble are deviously well chosen, the polarisation between the members of the crowd are just immense and the laughter and jokes flies like a spitfire doing the turmoil roll at full boost. They fit like a skiier in a condomsuit, and appears on the screen as if theyve been class mates for real...

the stashing, costumes, locations and production design arewell considered, the filmographic temperature and choice of dim colours makes this an open door back to the 90's. Soundtrack and quality of musical score is well chosen and executed, and when it comes to moral it gives the grumpy old man goosebumps all over my body. So let yourself be inspired of a gracious story about a crowd of young lassies from the scottish highlands entering the edinbourough castle and princess street with glitter, glamour and the voices of nightingales.

Its a recommend.

This film was full of unlikeable characters with almost everyone apparently obsessed with sex. It was almost like some weird man had put his warped sexual fantasies about catholic teenage girls onto film and for that reason it was far fetched, very crude and lacking in humour. The scenery and soundtrack were the only two redeeming features. I would definitely NOT recommend going to see this.

One of those rare occasions of not expecting too much from a film and then being knocked sideways by the quality of the acting, story, script, music, singing etc etc

Completely immersed from start to finish & disappointed when it ended. Including the end song.

Well done to all concerned.

Coarse on occasions but funny with it. The Northern soul club made me want to be there.

My expectation was for an average at best comedy which I thought I'd watch for the scenes of Edinburgh that I'd visited earlier this year.

I was drawn into a warming tale of friendship and love with an ending that left me in tears.

Great actresses (and a few actors) that made their characters feel "real", I have no doubt they all have solid careers ahead of them.

The pace was spot on, no scene too drawn out, humour was subtle in places and laugh out loud in others.

I have to admit I was maybe a bit distracted at times by the "walked there, been there, saw that" moments in Edinburgh but it is a stunning city and well worth visiting.

Beautiful film.

Thoroughly enjoyed this film - I had not heard of it but when flicking through channels it caught my eye. The acting is fantastic - characters full of depth. The storyline and setting brings so much...tones of musical at times, elements of humour and seriousness. All characters are relatable - you will find many who you will be able to place from your own life experience. I am not religious - certainly have limited knowledge of catholic schools but there are certain themes taken to extreme in some ways but that is how to jam so much into a film. Both storyline and characters bring life to this... balanced and enriched. Makes me want to read the book....totally recommended. Life is for living...

Unfunny, unconvincing and unrealistic.

Sure, I get it, teen girls talk about sex.

But not 100% of the time and to the detriment of just about everything else as this movie would have you believe.... Gave up half way through.

The first 30 minutes were a bit, awkward, with the schoolgirls (albeit hilarious) sex obsessions, but stick with it. By the end I was welling up a bit about their friendship and the story. Excellent movie, great scenery, fantastic performances, very funny in parts. Recommended.

I went to see this after falling in love with Derry Girls. While watching the film, something felt very wrong as this was exactly my era and I had a similar background. I said to my friend, it's almost as if its how a man likes to imagine girls to be, heavily stereotyped under the heading Catholic. The script did not ring true on so many levels and really missed an opportunity to explore the vulnerabilities of girls growing up in this setting, and I was right, it's a male author and director. For me Derry Girls is so successful because the characters are loveable and all very different. The girls in this film were very shallow, samey and unintelligent. I may be wrong but when 'girls like this' were getting up to 'trouble' , good old Catholic shame would barely let anyone talk about it and that was the major issue and why there were so many teen pregnancies. Please give us more films with depth and a social conscience when exploring such important topics, Derry Girls did this so brilliantly and with such great humour.

This movie blew me away, after being aggressively recommended 3 times by my non aggressive friend Charlie, I finally stumbled across it on NF with 3 days left to watch, I pressed play as scrolling fatigue was happening. Suddenly the music, teenage rebellion, blasphemy and swearing sparked the same excitement when watching Gregory's Girl at 10 and Trainspotting at 22. This was in my top 3 before I even finished the film. 10/10 for the acting,chemistry,humour,emotion,pace,soundtrack and realism. The film will receive the admiration it deserves, once the female leads make their name in Hollywood.

We've had decades of this type of Scottish humour from 7:84 to Connolly to the Slab Boys etcetc , But done well . This was a male fantasy of tarty schoolgirls with a few bits of unconvincing social conscience and an obligatory smattering of sleazy men who they slag off and then go off with !

Depressing and dishonest . Is that really what women talk like ? The Traverse Theatre version was joyous , irreverent, moving and hilarious and devoid of gratuitous sexism.

A very good film,very reminiscent of stand by me albeit more raucous.the acting and the cast first class.deserves more publicity and release venues.a film of the pain and pitfalls of growing up from the female perspective.

I'd love to have seen this in the hands of Lynne Ramsay, who adapted another of Alan Warner's brilliant books for cinema. I am referring to Morvern Callar. A great, sympathetic rendering of a great book.

Michael Caton-Jones, by contrast, has made a ham fist of this.

The Sopranos, the source material, by Alan Warner is a spiffing book.

Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour, the stage play/musical, based on it, is one of the National Theatre of Scotland's finest hours.

Our Ladies, also based on it, is supremely average. It's just so....whatever.

It's absolutely bang on 5/10.

Completely average. Completely unremarkable. Terribly disappointing.

The script, in part, destroys the source material, but there are some laugh out loud moments. I'll give you that. But that's because of Alan Warner.

The casting is more patchy than my lawn.

The acting more variable than a digital radio in the Highlands.

But my real ire is reserved for time continuity. Our Ladies start at their School in Fort William at, let's say 8.45, but by 11 am they have driven to Edinburgh, rehearsed a choir competition, changed and hit the pubs before they are even open. Come on Michael (Caton-Jones).

And is the book not set in Oban?

The book is supremely feminist and lambasts its male characters but the movie simply caricaturises them. Every single man in this movie is poor (apart from the wee specky love interest of Orla).

It's directed with a lack of sympathy and it's poorly cast all round. I mean one of the girls was 27 when she played the part. Come on man.

I found it tolerable, but only just. I really could not be more ambivalent about this.

Sorry.

The thing that gets me about imdb is the so called movie experts who feel the need to pick every little thing wrong with a movie as opposed to just enjoying it for what it is...Entertainment and in this case I felt it delivered.

This is a fun movie with romantic 90s references. A little silly at times but I enjoyed it. Good acting, good soundtrack and a decent story set amongst stunning scenery.

Give it a watch and ignore the keyboard experts.

I just can't understand how a coming of age film about a group of teenage Scottish schoolgirls, written by a male Australian septuagenarian could be so unfunny. Any ideas?