Hello Carter ** (2013, Charlie Cox, Jodie Whittaker, Annabelle Wallis) – Movie Review

Oozing infectious easy-going charm and sheer niceness, Charlie Cox gives a likeable performance in this good-natured, cheerfully amateurish comedy drama. Cox is starring as single, recently unemployed and homeless hero Carter. He’s is indeed a man totally down-on-his-luck.

However, eternally resourceful and resilient and very middle class as he is, Carter sets off on an adventure across London to find his ex-girlfriend and win her back (though that presumably doesn’t sort the single, unemployed and homeless situations, but then one step at a time). In traditional movie fashion, weird folk help him along the way to what will surely be a happy ending.

Annabelle Wallis, Jodie Whittaker, Paul Schneider, Antonia Thomas, Christian Cooke and Henry Lloyd-Hughes are the good cast battling an interesting but fairly weak script. That good actress Judy Parfitt over-eggs the pudding as Aunt Miriam.

It’s the first feature by long-term assistant or second unit director Anthony Wilcox, based on a short film he made in 2011. His atmospheric London location shooting helps.

Jodie Whittaker takes a wrong turn and finds herself outside the South Bank offices of TV Times at the Blue Fin building.

© Derek Winnert 2014 Movie Review

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