I saw it twice in the cinema, We've churned out some great little films over the last few years, Sing Street, Young Offenders, Brooklyn and Michael Inside. A Date with Mad Mary is right up there, it's definitely a showcase for Seana Kerslake, she's awesome in it. She doesn't play a likeable character at all in places but she makes you care about her by the end. Also helps that she's not a bad looking woman either in real life, but plays it down in this. She's definitely going to be a star.
I liked the stuff with Tara Lee's Jess, it was nice to see a Lesbian relationship not be made a big deal off. Made you care more for Mary too as before that she wasn't the most likeable of characters. Her mate Charlene, I thought was the most dislikeable from the film but they did redeem her at the end, and we saw why Mary saw her as a close mate. They could have gone either way with Charlene, you could have had her go out been a bitch to Mary and Mary telling her where to go at the end. That's where I thought it was going to go, but they surprised me.
At 80 mins it doesn't outstay it welcome, it has a few comedic moments but it was a lot darker then I thought it be in places. But it was deserving of the IFTA awards it won. But it's all about Kerslake performance really.
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