Adult Life Skills

Whittaker is real and likeable, and there are some very funny lines.

I can't imagine a person experienced with offbeat English-language films of the last ten years not seeing much that's familiar in Adult Life Skills, but it's a lovely movie with some very good performances and it makes some very good choices.

A cheesy rehash of numerous stunted-adolescent dramedies.

Adult Life Skills is an assured and engrossing debut from Rachel Tunnard that deserves to find an audience.

"Funny and touching. . .(Whittaker) is bereft over death of her twin. . . Sprightly screenplay. . . it is not a Prince Charming, but women in her life who unite to revive her. "

Anna shares DNA with the men-children of the Apatow oeuvre and yet Adult Life Skills is a unique specimen.

Expanded from writer/director Rachel Tunnard's Bafta-nominated short, the film itself feels hopelessly stretched.

Employs an engaging, if sometimes strained blend of quirky comedy and mawkish melodrama to explore the emotional state of a 29-year-old striving to reconcile the loss of a beloved twin brother with the need to get on with her own life.

Tunnard has a distinctive directorial voice - it will be interesting to see what she does next.

There is some genuine gut-wrenching unease as well as hilarity in the relationships and altercations that unfold.

The film squirms with that very British comedy-of-embarrassment, and is rich in daft penis jokes, but with a poignant core that explores Anna's relationship with her twin brother and an eight-year-old kid next door.