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lizjr61
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The Giftie (1988)
Very funny
15 May 2014 - 1 out of 1 users found this review helpful.
I'd just like to add to the summary given above that this is also very funny. The title refers to Robbie Burns' poem which includes the line "would some power the giftie gie us, to see ourselves as others see us" (the original is in more phonetic Scots), and most of the humour derives from the characters getting to see themselves - or rather their identical copies - as others do, and finding them less than easy to get on with. This is of course helped tremendously by the excellent actors.
This is well worth seeing (and as a bonus it also deals with some existential issues, something that can't be said about that may comedies!)
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