Starring: Stephen Dillane, Georges
Corraface, Cosima Shaw
Harry Papadopoulos (Dillane) is a wealthy
and successful Greek-born British businessman, heading the Papadopoulos And
Sons business, specialising in Greek food and, more recently, property. When an
economic downturn results in the business going bust, Harry and his family move
in with Harry’s elder brother, Spiros (Corraface) who has dreams of reopening
the chip shop where the brothers had first made their name.
To start with, Papadopoulos And Sons isn’t a
particularly entertaining film. The setting and characters come off as either
bland or unoriginal and the film never goes beyond faintly amusing. The film
becomes noticeably better when Georges Corraface turns up; his performance as
Spiros, the lovable rogue, lifts the film’s momentum and does start to endear
you to the main characters in turn. The plot is a little disorganised (one plot
thread seems almost dropped entirely without much of a resolution) and the film
probably would’ve been served better as a TV miniseries, but there’s nothing
here that’s hugely problematic; it’s just a little flat.
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