Brighton? Brighton Where?
Except for a passing shot or two of Brighton's pier and pavilion, there is very little evidence of Brighton on show. The whole movie is pretty much filmed in Saint Leonards-on-sea, with other scenes shot in neighbouring Hastings.
In the first scenes, friends Dinah (Marion Bailey) and Doreen (Lesley Sharp) head off to Brighton on a bus from London. The bus is seen pulling up at the Alpha Cafe outside St Leonards Warrior Square railway station. They sit on the promenade on St Leonards seafront, with Hastings Pier in the distance, and meet teddy-boys Derek (Larry Lamb) and Dave (Phil Davis). They are later filmed smoking cigarettes outside the White Rock Theatre in Hastings.
The film then moves forward 40 years, to 2005, where the two now married couples - Dinah and Derek, and Dave and Doreen - drive down from London for a seaside jaunt in Brighton. Dinah and Derek pull up outside their favourite old Brighton boozer (actually The Royal in St Leonards) then head off to sit on the deckchairs on the (Brighton) seafront - actually filmed near the Goat Ledge cafe on Lower Promenade, St Leonards.
The couples meet up and Dinah heads off to buy them burgers. She is seen wandering around Kings Road, St Leonards, frantically looking for a burger bar, with shots of the Dandelion Deli and Kings Fish Bar, St Leonards, in the background. Later, Derek kicks a man sitting on a deck chair. He is later accosted by the man's friends while walking down Bottle Alley, St Leonards.
With a couple of other plot twists thrown in, one that involves a scene at the Chapel to the Former Convent of the Holy Child Jesus, in Magdalen Road, St Leonards, they all return to London (or maybe just somewhere that looks like London) with a story to tell.
Director Stephen Cookson said they decided to shoot the movie in Hastings and St Leonards because "Brighton is a bit too modern now" - Sounds more like "Brighton is a bit too expensive to film in now"
And if anyone is wondering.... I live in St Leonards.
Except for a passing shot or two of Brighton's pier and pavilion, there is very little evidence of Brighton on show. The whole movie is pretty much filmed in Saint Leonards-on-sea, with other scenes shot in neighbouring Hastings.
In the first scenes, friends Dinah (Marion Bailey) and Doreen (Lesley Sharp) head off to Brighton on a bus from London. The bus is seen pulling up at the Alpha Cafe outside St Leonards Warrior Square railway station. They sit on the promenade on St Leonards seafront, with Hastings Pier in the distance, and meet teddy-boys Derek (Larry Lamb) and Dave (Phil Davis). They are later filmed smoking cigarettes outside the White Rock Theatre in Hastings.
The film then moves forward 40 years, to 2005, where the two now married couples - Dinah and Derek, and Dave and Doreen - drive down from London for a seaside jaunt in Brighton. Dinah and Derek pull up outside their favourite old Brighton boozer (actually The Royal in St Leonards) then head off to sit on the deckchairs on the (Brighton) seafront - actually filmed near the Goat Ledge cafe on Lower Promenade, St Leonards.
The couples meet up and Dinah heads off to buy them burgers. She is seen wandering around Kings Road, St Leonards, frantically looking for a burger bar, with shots of the Dandelion Deli and Kings Fish Bar, St Leonards, in the background. Later, Derek kicks a man sitting on a deck chair. He is later accosted by the man's friends while walking down Bottle Alley, St Leonards.
With a couple of other plot twists thrown in, one that involves a scene at the Chapel to the Former Convent of the Holy Child Jesus, in Magdalen Road, St Leonards, they all return to London (or maybe just somewhere that looks like London) with a story to tell.
Director Stephen Cookson said they decided to shoot the movie in Hastings and St Leonards because "Brighton is a bit too modern now" - Sounds more like "Brighton is a bit too expensive to film in now"
And if anyone is wondering.... I live in St Leonards.