Alison Steadman and Roger Sloman are wishy-washy veggie peacenik Candice-Marie and self-important town hall bureaucrat Keith, a pair of lisping middle-class types getting back to nature (to an extent – Keith brings a shedload of camping equipment, and rules are layed down ‘for the enjoyment of everyone’) by pitching their tent at a camping site. All goes well in that gently comical Mike Leigh way, with plenty of cups of tea, cold showers and visits to slate quarries, until the arrival of a couple of Brummie ‘rockers’ upsets the balance. As a study of middle class anal retention drifting slowly but surely outside its comfort zone in the Great British outdoors, it’s second to none.
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