Heartaches

Charismatic screen icons Annie Potts and Margot Kidder are on immaculately beguiling form in sparky 80s drama Heartaches. Far too good to be this obscure, director Donald Shebib does an exemplary job preventing this engagingly written, energetically performed story from ever lapsing into saccharine melodrama. It's a simple, earnest story of a beautiful friendship eloquently told, while often humorous, Heartaches proves appropriately adapt at plucking mellifluously at the old heartstrings. Heartaches remains a lively, uniquely charming female-led Canadian feature dazzlingly bejewelled with two amusingly disparate, hugely appealing characters that greatly deserves a far bigger audience. I've always had a mad crush on Kidder, and Rita is a real live wire!!!!!!!!!!!!!!