Pun Salad

Nominated for three Oscars: Best Movie, Best Actress, and Best Derived Screenplay. Didn't win any, but that's not too shabby!

It's a coming-of-age story, set in the London area in the pre-Beatles 60's. Young Jenny is a brilliant student, being micromanaged by her father into Oxford. Only problem is, she's bored and only sees more stultifying drabness in store for her on the path she's on. Salvation comes in the guise of David, a much older fellow who offers her a lift home in the rain. This starts off a relationship that Jenny sees as an escape from her bourgeois existence.

But David has secrets of his own. Everyone's shocked when they find out the big one. Everyone except, well me. And probably you, too. Saw it coming a mile off.

Emma Thompson has a small role, and she's always worth watching. And David has a friend with a girlfriend—I've seen her before, who is that? Ah, the credits reveal all: that's Rosamund Pike, last seen as the treacherous Miranda Frost in Die Another Day. She's good!