Annie Mary is a young Welsh woman who has always ‘done it hard’…she lost her mother early…her father doesn’t love her and dominates her…and there doesn’t seem much of a future for her.
She tries hard but nothing comes easy for her…she always tries but has little idea what she is doing. She is always bumping into things and has a survivor’s mentality…there’s a classic scene where knowing that she is no good at making bread she goes to the local supermarket and purchases hundreds of loaves of it!
Annie Mary biggest hope for herself is that she can make something of her good singing voice. She won a singing contest as a teenager.

My take on ‘Very Annie Mary’ was that it was an interesting, quirky film that failed to reach great heights. Rachel Griffith’s well realized performances as Annie Mary, one of nature’s battlers, was the highlight.
The quirky start to the film where we see Annie’s eccentric father driving his baker’s van through the countryside and singing Pavarotti songs helped with loudspeakers wired on the roof, defined the films quirky nature.

9th January, 2005