London-born film-maker Dan Clark has made a half-wonderful satire that pokes fun at mendacious Tory politicians and deranged narcissists who’d do anything to get on TV (with Clark aware those two groups frequently overlap).
Niftily edited, it boasts a spry performance from Patrick Baladi as Richard “Hardline” Hardy, a posh, southern MP who is kidnapped during a trip up North by stroppy, cash-strapped, wannabe actress, Maggie (Kelly Wenham, of Coronation Street fame) and her sweetly insecure, taxi-driving boyfriend, Brian (Jack Parry Jones).
