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How - Spoiler Alert!!! - Edie review by CP Customer

I found Edie to be enjoyable and entertaining but then I thought about it a bit more. 

The film makers tell us that Sheila Hancock actually climbed Mount Suilven in the making of this movie.

At her age that is a grand achievement in itself but, as a contemporary of hers, what I really want to know is he how on earth she got down again. The going up is so much easier than the coming down, the constant jarring on those four score + knees and then there’s the matter of general balance.    

 Helicopter springs to mind!  

Interesting - Edie review by bijou

An interesting film with beautiful scenery. Makes one realise that old age doesn’t mean giving up. Very well acted by Sheila Hancock.

Great for the older generation - Edie review by CS

Good storyline and so true of life for some in Sheila's generation putting duty before living a life of one's own.

I liked this film of courage and true grit and goes to prove you are never too old to achieve the dream.

Simply Awful - Edie review by DT

The beginning is a clumsy attempt at the now hackneyed them of a bullying husband and a wife trapped in the role as a full time carer. In her earlier years, Hancock would have made a decent attempt at this but this was emotionless, empty and engineered no empathy. Poor casting throughout combined with and an incredible storyline made for really dull watching. Sheila Hancock please retire gracefully.

Slow and maudlin - Edie review by TE

An unconvincing storyline and needlessly slow build up. Hancock is wasted. No pace, no real jeopardy and no characters one really cares about.

Age is no barrier! - Edie review by TE

This is one of those films that grabs you simply because of the story's premise: an 80+ woman sets out to redeem what she sees as a wasted life by climbing Suilven, an iconic peak in the far north-west of Scotland.

I love Suilven and the surrounding area of Assynt and Sutherland, so the landscape photography is a real winner for me.

The narrative is far too strung out, and there are some ludicrous coincidences and unlikely happenings, but Edie's dogged sense of a mission carries the viewer along well enough.

Sheila Hancock is very good as Edie. She resists any temptation to play the character for sentiment. We learn to like Edie, much like the film, warts and all.