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Eskimo Day
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Eskimo Day is a 1996 British TV drama by Jack Rosenthal, on the theme of parents reluctantly coming to terms with their children growing up and becoming independent. The film follows various families as their teenage children have their interviews at the prestigious Queens' College at the University of Cambridge. Their parents accompany them to Cambridge, and have difficulty in watching them take those first steps towards independence, and some of them try too hard to ensure their children's success.In the family of modest means from Oop North Blackburn, Neil Whittle (Benedict Sandiford) is accompanied by his very loving father Bevis (David Ross) and superstitious mother Shani (Maureen Lipman), while Pippa Lloyd (Laura Howard) from the wealthy family from Cheltenham is accompanied by her overbearing narcissistic father Hugh (Tom Wilkinson), and downtrodden mother Harriet (Anna Carteret). The two families meet, and share the dramatic realisation that an Empty Nest is forthcoming.In a third family, anxious Malcolm (Grant Warnock) travels alone to Cambridge, but his equally anxious mother (Kathryn Pogson) secretly follows him, and asks local townsfolk to chat to him about how he got on.Meanwhile, the parental roles are reversed when Simon (James Fleet), a middle-aged interviewer at Queens' College, is trying to get his elderly father James (Alec Guinness) into sheltered accommodation. James is a retired professor whose mind is as sharp as ever, and finds the process deeply infantilising, saying "ask me why children turn their parents into children".A sequel was made in 1997, Cold Enough For Snow, which followed Neil, Pippa and their parents through their exams, the summer, and their first term at university. | |
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Amazingly Embarrassing Parents | |
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Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Most of the parents in this film. | |
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Sinister Whistling | |
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Sinister Whistling: Shani believes that Bevis's nervous whistling brings bad luck. | |
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Spit Shine | |
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Spit Shine: Simon spits on James's suit to clean off some dirt. | |
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Ironic Echo | |
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Ironic Echo: When Simon "interviews" James to get him into sheltered accommodation for the elderly, James replies to every question with "ask me another". Later, when James asks Simon "are you going to stop worrying about me from now on?", Simon replies "ask me another". | |
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Extremely Short Timespan | |
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Extremely Short Timespan: The film's events take place in a single day, beginning just before dawn, and ending at dusk. | |
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Fantasy-Forbidding Father | |
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Fantasy-Forbidding Father: Hugh wants nothing more than for Pippa to attend Queen's College, Cambridge, and he grills her on this relentlessly. | |
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Narcissist | |
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Narcissist: Hugh, who is obsessed with his daughter Pippa attending Cambridge, which has clearly been his aspiration since her childhood. Pippa generally stands up to him, but cries when he is not looking. Her mother Harriet is clearly terrified of Hugh, especially when he makes her responsible for any failings in Pippa's life. | |
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Shared Family Quirks | |
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Shared Family Quirks: Malcolm and his mum are both very anxious. | |
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Tracking Shot | |
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Tracking Shot: Often used between scenes. Shortly before the main characters (Malcolm, Pippa, Neil) arrive in Cambridge, a succession of tracking shots follow Malcolm's bus, Pippa's train, and Neil's family car; as it turns off the motorway, the camera lingers on a road sign saying Cambridge. When characters walk from one location to another, other main characters are seen passing: Neil and Pippa walk past a door at Queens', just as Malcolm comes out. | |
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Change the Uncomfortable Subject | |
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Change the Uncomfortable Subject: James often changes the subject to intellectual matters, when Simon is trying to make him attend to mundane matters such as moving into a retirement home. | |
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Noodle Incident | |
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Noodle Incident: Bevis tries to tell of a funny incident that happened at work, but Shani and Neil veto this, saying that they've heard it before. | |
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Fortune Teller | |
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Fortune Teller: Shani visits Madam Olga, a fortune teller, and tries to persuade Madam Olga to tell her what she wants to hear, about Neil attending Cambridge. | |
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MacGuffin | |
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Macguffin: Shani becomes very fixated on certain objects, as part of her superstitious ways. Shani gives Neil his grandmother's wedding ring, to bring him luck. Near the end, he drops the ring without realising it, and Miss Bodley picks it up, and puts it on her own finger. This has no significance until the sequel, Cold Enough For Snow. Shani dreams of opening a tin of corned beef, as a potent symbol of things they have neglected to teach their children. | |
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Empty Nest | |
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Empty Nest: The crux of the film. Although the moment of them actually leaving home is not featured, it is foreshadowed extremely poignantly, especially while Neil and Pippa are having their second interviews. Neil waves to his mother just before he disappears, which surprises both him and his mother; and all the parents have a sudden and dramatic realisation that their children will leave home, for good, and reflect upon all the things they had never taught them; that their parenting job is done, and their children have to make their own way in the world. This is the main theme of the latter part of the film, and the title "Eskimo Day" references the now-redundant parents, whose children have flown the nest. | |
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Liar Revealed | |
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Liar Revealed: Despite frequently boasting about it, Hugh never attended Cambridge at all, as revealed when a passing interviewee sees his Cambridge scarf, and asks him for directions. | |
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Wise Beyond Their Years | |
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Wise Beyond Their Years: To some extent, Pippa, who has a lifetime's practice at refuting her father's narcissistic ways. Presumably she is well-read, as she is applying to study English literature at Cambridge. Bevis comments that Neil is brainier than he is. | |
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Seinfeldian Conversation | |
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Seinfeldian Conversation: When Malcolm is travelling on his bus to Cambridge, a nearby passenger thinks he looks a bit green, and tries to make conversation. | |
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Crazy-Prepared | |
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Crazy-Prepared: The father of Rosemary, a computer science student, goes to absurd lengths to make sure she is in peak mental condition, by making her go for a twenty-minute run just before her interview, to boost her adrenalin level. This backfires when she twists her ankle, and has to attend her interview with a crutch. | |
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Not What It Looks Like | |
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Not What It Looks Like: When ordering his daughter Rosemary to get changed into clothes for running, he says loudly in a crowded cafe "just go to the ladies, and get your clothes off". | |
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Bookends | |
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Book Ends: At the very beginning, Bevis muses on the phrases "unholy hour", and "godforsaken place", and how the adjectives are not interchangeable. He returns to this at the end. | |
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Snark-to-Snark Combat | |
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Snark-to-Snark Combat: Pippa and her father Hugh, who have an antagonistic relationship. | |
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Four-Temperament Ensemble | |
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Four-Temperament Ensemble: Of the main parents: Phlegmatic: Bevis. Sanguine: Shani. Choleric: Hugh. Melancolic: Harriet. | |
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Games of the Elderly | |
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Games of the Elderly: James refuses sheltered accommodation because there is no bingo at all. | |
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Laborious Laces | |
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Laborious Laces: When evading his son's questions about mundane matters, the elderly James rattles off a long list of philosophical questions, finishing with "ask me why shoelaces won't stay fastened these days", referring to his own, which he trips on later. | |
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Trophy Child: Very much how Hugh treats Pippa, with his ultimate desire that she attends Cambridge. | |
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Green Around the Gills | |
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Green Around the Gills: When the nervous Malcolm is on the coach to Cambridge, a nearby passenger asks him if he is all right, saying he looks a bit green. The passenger then tells him a story about how he came close to winning a lottery ticket, and feels a bit green about the gills himself. In this scene, Malcolm does not actually turn green, but small moans of discomfort are heard from him. | |
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Bleak Abyss Retirement Home | |
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Bleak Abyss Retirement Home: Simon, an interviewer at Cambridge, is trying to get his elderly but very intellectual father James into sheltered accommodation, going to great lengths to make sure this happens. James's mind is as sharp as ever, and he is not impressed when a man and a woman show him round the building, especially when he learns that there is no bingo at all. | |
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Superstition Episode | |
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Superstition Episode: Shani is superstitious through and through: She tries to start the car on the third attempt, saying "please, not first time, not second...". When it starts the third time, she says "thank you, car". She is horrified by the sight of a single magpie. She avoids the cracks, taking comical big steps in her high heels. She blocks the path under a ladder, to prevent Neil and Bevis from taking that route. She tries to persuade a black cat to cross her path, without success. | |
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Badass Boast: Hugh boasts to Bevis about being a fantastic father to Pippa (which he is not), and about his daughter's supposed achievements at school. | |
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What the Hell Is That Accent? | |
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What the Hell Is That Accent?: Bevis from Oop North tries to put on a posh voice in Cambridge, and would be most "beholden" if a passing woman could indicate the whereabouts of a car park (which is right in front of him). He does the same when talking to Hugh, hilariously mispronouncing the word "books". | |
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Non-Answer | |
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Non-Answer: Malcolm's replies to anyone who asks him how he did in his interview. | |
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Pacing a Trench | |
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Pacing a Trench: Pippa paces furiously during breakfast, until she decides to ignore her father's orders as a matter of principle, or possibly to support her mother. | |
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Tree Cover | |
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Tree Cover: When Malcolm's mum follows him to Cambridge, she hides behind trees and other objects, having persuaded local people to ask Malcolm how he got on. | |
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Oop North | |
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Leitmotif | |
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Leitmotif: When Queens' College in Cambridge is seen, rousing brass music is heard, to reflect its grandeur. Also Ethereal Choir music is played in the latter part of the film, especially during the scenes when the parents realise that Empty Nest is forthcoming, and during the ending credits. | |
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Good Parents | |
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Good Parents: Despite being embarrassing, the parents are generally shown in a sympathetic light, except Narcissist Hugh. | |
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Love at First Sight | |
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Love at First Sight: Neil and Pippa clearly like each other, after chatting as they escape from their mad parents. Near the end of the film, they make a possibly life-changing oath, having only met that day: | |
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Clock Tower | |
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Clock Tower: Just before Neil and Pippa's interviews, there is a montage of various clock towers striking midday, highlighting the momentous occasion. | |
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Oh, Crap! | |
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Oh, Crap!: Neil has a moment of this when telling Pippa about his interview, which is just before hers. Malcolm's mum. Having secretly followed him to Cambridge, she suddenly finds that he has boarded the same coach as her for the return journey, and hides her face so that she does not see her. Fortunately, he removes his glasses to clean them just as he boards. | |
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Deadpan Snarker | |
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Deadpan Snarker: Neil, usually in response to his mother's superstitious ways. James, in response to Simon's over-the-top efforts to get him into sheltered accommodation. | |
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Ditzy Genius | |
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Ditzy Genius: Only the brightest students need apply to Queen's college; this film makes comedy of some of them being hopelessly impractically minded. The porter at Queen's college sympathetically dismisses an interviewee who has come a week early, and many of the locals in Cambridge know that it is "interview week", and the city will be full of wandering interviewees, possibly travelling a long way from home by themselves for the first time. This is shown in a scene when middle-class Malcolm debates with a pair of working-class cabbies whether to take a taxi. | |
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Calling Parents by Their Name: Middle-aged Simon usually addresses his father as "James". He only calls him "father" when making a heartfelt appeal to his better nature. | |
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Littering Is No Big Deal | |
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Littering Is No Big Deal: Neil casually kicks aside the paper wrapper of his fish and chips, which is then picked up by the same road sweeper who meets Malcolm. Harriet also angrily crushes a polystyrene cup, and discards it. | |
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Uptown Girl | |
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Uptown Girl: Pippa to Neil. Their home settings are only briefly seen in this film, but there is enough to see that Neil's family is of modest means (small terraced house), while Pippa's family is wealthy (large detached house with sports car outside). Their everyday lives are seen more in the sequel, Cold Enough For Snow. This wealth difference does not bother Neil and Pippa at all, but it matters to their parents. | |
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For Doom the Bell Tolls | |
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For Doom the Bell Tolls: When Harriet comes out of a church after praying for Pippa's success, she automatically starts lighting up a cigarette, until the sound of a church bell stops her in her tracks, and she remembers that she is supposed to have given up smoking. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: Bevis references Blackadder, when discussing the way teenagers speak to each other. | |
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Hollywood Darkness | |
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Hollywood Darkness: In the opening scene, there is just enough light in Shani and Bevis's dark bedroom for the viewer to see Shani Quaking with Fear, with her eyes wide open, just before the alarm clock goes off. | |
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Gosh Dang It to Heck!: The word "bloody" is used a lot, which is swearing by Shani's standards. | |
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Contrived Coincidence | |
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Contrived Coincidence: Shani again meets the woman that Bevis had splashed earlier (see Roadside Wave) in the street, and the same woman arrives at their cafe, to apply for a job. Shani mentions that if you walk under a ladder, you have to cross your fingers until you see a dog. Just then, a Big Issue seller passes, with a dog. | |
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Affectionate Nickname | |
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Affectionate Nickname: Pippa is known as "Muffin" by her mother; things are serious if her father calls her this. | |
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Jaw Drop | |
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Jaw Drop: Harriet, when Hugh's lies about his attending Cambridge are revealed. Also Bevis, when Harriet throws her tea over Hugh following this revelation. | |
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O.O.C. Is Serious Business | |
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O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Hugh, when his pompous exterior cracks at the realisation that Pippa is growing up, and he calls her "Muffin". Also Harriet, when she stands up to him. | |
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Too Unhappy to Be Hungry | |
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Too Unhappy to Be Hungry: Pippa is horrified when her mother puts a full English breakfast in front of her. The cafe owner "Mother Polly" comments on the students' lack of appetite before their interviews. | |
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Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness | |
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Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Neil's reply when Shani asks him how well he slept. Some of James's replies to Simon. | |
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Strict Parents Make Sneaky Kids | |
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Strict Parents Make Sneaky Kids: At the beginning, Neil is seen reading in bed with a torch. When his mother knocks on his door, he quickly hides under the bedclothes and pretends to be asleep. Pippa, when she meets up with Neil after their first interview, and they are debating returning to their parents in a nearby cafe. | |
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Roadside Wave | |
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Dizzy Cam | |
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Dizzy Cam: Used at the same time as an Ethereal Choir when the parents realise that their children are almost out of their lives, leaving the parents alone. | |
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Running Gag | |
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Running Gag: Malcolm's mum persuading town workers to ask him how he got on in his interview. Malcolm's replies are comically indecisive: "Not too bad, really... but then again, not too good either." He gives similar replies when she finally asks him herself. Hugh constantly references his own days at Cambridge, even though it is eventually revealed he never attended at all. The revelation is foreshadowed in that Hugh gets various details wrong which would be noticed by people familiar with the university, e.g. he mentions dining at "high table", which is where fellows (i.e. academic staff) - not students - sit at formal college dinners. Between conducting interviews, Simon is constantly telephoning his father James to check he is getting ready for his "interview" at sheltered accommodation, asking each candidate to wait a minute or two. He even makes one of these calls (loudly and angrily) during Miss Bodley's interview. Harriet keeps sadly noticing "No smoking" signs, having promised to stop smoking that day. Hugh is convinced that Pippa will be asked about current affairs in her interview, and grills her mercilessly on this, causing her to run and hide each time. | |
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Bittersweet 17 | |
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Bittersweet 17: The parents are seeing their children become young adults. | |
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Woken Up at an Ungodly Hour | |
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Woken Up at an Ungodly Hour: The very first scene of the movie is Bevis being woken at a very early unspecified hour by Shani's alarm clock, before the highly momentous day of taking their son to his university interview. Bevis muses on the words "godforsaken" and "unholy". | |
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Friendly Rivalry | |
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Friendly Rivalry: As both Neil and Pippa are applying for English literature at Queens' College, their families are rivals. Hugh and Bevis indulge in competitive boasting about their children's supposed achievements. | |
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Lying to Protect Your Feelings | |
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Lying to Protect Your Feelings: After Malcolm's mum has secretly followed him to Cambridge, she accidentally returns on the same bus as Malcolm. When the bus arrives, she dashes out, and tries to look nonchalant, as if she has come to meet him, telling him she'd only just got there; which is half-true. | |
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Brick Joke | |
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Brick Joke: Malcolm has a lengthy debate with two cabbies about whether to walk to Queens', or take a taxi (see Ditzy Genius). When he returns, he meets one of the cabbies again, and starts telling the bemused cabby how he got on in his usual Non-Answer fashion, as several people have asked him how he did. Malcolm jerks away when his mum tries to tidy his hair. Rosemary does likewise when her dad tries to take her arm. Just after Malcolm has taken directions from a cabby, at first he walks in the wrong direction (see Ditzy Genius). At Queens' College, in a Funny Background Event, he is seen walking first in one direction, then the other, presumably realising he had gone the wrong way. | |
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