Movie review for the day

Rico says he and the ladyfriend watched My Life So Far last night; sort of a proto-Downton Abbey, starring Colin Firth, Rosemary Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Malcolm McDowell, and Tchéky Karyo (who is one of Rico's favorite, if little-known, actors; he played Bob in La Femme Nikita).

Memoir of the lives of a family growing up on a post-World War One estate in England, headed up by a strong disciplinarian, her daughter, her inventor husband, their ten-year-old son, and his older sister. Through the household comes a number of suitors hoping to impress the young woman, including an aviator. When the elder woman's son shows up at the estate with his French fiancé, everything gets thrown into turmoil. The young boy takes a sudden interest in her sexual allure, and his father is disturbed by his own non-Victorian feelings.

Good, if you like stiff-upper-lip Brits, but he'd rather see more Downton Abbey, thank you... (And the ladyfriend was pissed that they cast an American, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, in what she felt should have been a British role...)