Synopsis:
How good to catch a show that could use some padding instead of being cut back. Clocking in at a slender 35 minutes, Fun Run is a lovely little slice of domesticity, brimming with Mancunian salt-of-the-earth type patter. Author Olivia Smedley has written something that might have come from Mike Leigh's bottom drawer. Sisters Fiona and Jessica are doing a fun run together. This is not a simple matter, what with one being build for speed and the other for, shall we say, comfort. They have never lost contact as such, but there has been a form of estrangement ever since the younger Jessica married her siblings ex-boyfriend ten years previously. Hobbled together at the ankle, what starts as a chance for a nice catch-oop soon turns into a good, solid rummage through the familial skeleton closet. Director Russell Tennant paces everything well and Yvonne Pinnington and Coronation Street's Corinne Coward are ideal foils for each other, deserving some kind of laurel - sweatband or Gatorade? - for maintaining their timing
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