
Fate, the pensions crisis and a steadfast refusal to accept the injustice of old age have contrived to force law abiding, retired couple, Arthur and Martha Goode into a life of crime. Refusing to take the loss of their pensions lying down and to fade away into their declining years, our characters decide to fight back. They decide to take back what was theirs in the first place. They decide to start robbing banks.... (Full plot summary below)
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Fate, the pensions crisis and a steadfast refusal to accept the injustice of old age have contrived to force law abiding, retired couple, Arthur and Martha Goode into a life of crime. Refusing to take the loss of their pensions lying down and to fade away into their declining years, our characters decide to fight back. They decide to take back what was theirs in the first place. They decide to start robbing banks.
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| FILMINK (Australia)John Noonan...a gentle comedy with something to say... |
| Radio TimesDavid ParkinsonThe humour is exceedingly gentle and the plot increasingly improbable. But John Miller directs steadily and the performances are irresistibly knowing. |
| The Arts DeskDavid KettleGentle the film's good-natured, well-meaning comedy most certainly is, soft-edged and reassuring too - but it's also so full of stock characters and movie cliches that the whole thing feels a bit like a missed opportunity. |
| The AustralianDavid StrattonEvery member of the cast... deserved a better, less far-fetched, plot than director John Miller and writers Miller, Nick Knowles and Jeremy Sheldon have devised for them. |
| Movie TalkJason BestThat the duo's robbery spree is such a gentle affair is the source of many of the movie's gags - their getaway car is a Volvo with a caravan on the back - but the geriatric pace means that the laughs are on the gentle side, too. |
| Irish TimesTara BradyJohn Miller's good-natured picture makes a noble stab at yoking real-world social problems to capering. |
| GuardianCatherine ShoardThere are the seeds of something interesting here, but premise and talent are ill-served by crude and cliched characterisation and thudding execution ... |
| Urban CinefileAndrew L. UrbanFounded on solidly serious themes of ageing, dying, illness and crime, the film does not on the surface offer much hope for fun, but the surface is exactly where the fun is |
| Total FilmKevin HarleyA film too stiff for comedy, too silly for drama and too slow for fun in between. |
| Observer (UK)Wendy IdeDespite a likable cast of television and theatre stalwarts, this limps along like a botched hip operation. |