What: The brilliant Sally Hawkins is Poppy, an undiscourageable optimist. Poppy is deliberately, carefully happy. She is not naive; she is not dumb.
She is a goal and Hawkins is great.
Comparable to: Other slice-of-life Mike Leigh films, like Secrets & Lies and Another Year.
Representative dialogue:
"Bear with me."
"Is there? Where is he?"
You might not like it if: There are some potentially triggering scenes -- nothing overt, but content warning for threats of violence and references to child abuse. Also, Poppy loves making dumb jokes. So heads up on that, too.
How to get it: This is one of those movies that is sometimes available to stream on Netflix and sometimes not.
Connections to previous Wreckage: Hawkins was also great in Desert Flower (Rec. #353).
I previously mentioned Happy-Go-Lucky as part of List #47: Some of the Best Movies I Saw in 2014.
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