Fast Freddie, the Widow and Me

2011

Drama

2
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 80%
IMDb Rating 6.4/10 10 112 112

social work terminal illness community service foster family

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Plot summary

Fast Freddie, The Widow and Me is a 2011 one-off Christmas special, made by STV Productions and broadcast by ITV on Tuesday 27 December 2011. The special centres around a wealthy car dealer Jonathan Donald who befriends a terminally ill teenager Freddie Copeland and makes his Christmas wish come true.

Director

David Richards Photo
David Richards

Top cast

Tamzin Outhwaite Photo
Tamzin Outhwaite as Patsy Morgan
Marian McLoughlin Photo
Marian McLoughlin as Julia
Davood Ghadami Photo
Davood Ghadami as Alex
Ann Beach Photo
Ann Beach as Freddie's Grandma
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1 hr 13 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by mcdaid 7 / 10

Car dealer having to do community service seeks to make a dying boy's wishes come true

Sentimental but not overly mawkish Christmas drama. Laurence Fox plays wealthy London car dealer Jonathan Donald, whose life revolves around closing the next big deal. Sentenced to 60 hours community service helping a group of disadvantaged special needs children, including a boy with a terminal heart condition, he reappraises the priorities in his life. Good performances from cast, with Jack McMullen as Fast Freddie and Sarah Smart as a dedicated community worker stand out. While this drama will not live long in the memory and has a rather leaden script, it passes the time well enough and is amiable albeit rather gritty fare for Christmas.
Reviewed by alan-harris43 6 / 10

fast Freddie, the widow and me

|I tried to watch this movie this afternoon, but found I was unable to watch it, not because I thought it was no good or anything like that, but because of the theme of the film hit a bit too close to home for me as I am in a similar situation, as the Fast Freddie character, I have been on renal dialysis for the last 17 years and am on my final access. I think any film that can bring home what it is like to be on dialysis can only be good. I wish there were more films like this about. As for the cast what I saw of Lawrence Fox and his transformation for have-it-all yuppie to a caring individual did seem a little unbelievable, but as I said above it was the Fast Freddie character that got my attention, overall I thought it was quite good, and it made a change to see something like kidney failure getting a mention.
Reviewed by pawebster 3 / 10

Yuk!

ITV must have thought everyone would be so comatose after Christmas food and drink that they would lap up any old sentimental twaddle. Perhaps millions did. This drama could have been put together by a write-your-own TV script computer program ("Click here for tear jerker") and possibly was.What gave it the final kiss of death was the presence of Laurence Fox in the leading role. He seems to specialise in phone-it-in performances, and this is a case in point. Perhaps the script is partly to blame, as his character starts the film as a childish egotist, who suddenly, at the mere turn of a page, becomes a soft-hearted philanthropist. However, I suspect that almost any TV actor of his age could have done a better job with the material.Jack McMullen is so-so in his role, while Sarah Smart is very good in hers.
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