There is a sprinkling of gags in this modest romantic comedy from debut film-maker Guy Browning. Occasionally, it achieves a homespun, unassuming daftness. Tom is a young man who chucks in a big-city job and comes back to his home village and takes a lowly position as a gardener. As played by Tom Mitchelson, Tom does a fair bit of Hugh Grant-ish stammering and flinching as he falls in love with a pretty Polish au pair, Anya, played by Alice Zawadski. But silly Tom is as slow as a tortoise when it comes to plucking up the courage to ask her out. The comedy locals have to jolly him along. It's gentle, well-meaning, a bit watery.

Peter Bradshaw

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