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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.

You can do it - Edie review by Koppert79

Edie staring 83 year old Shiela Hancock as Edie who loses her husband and decides to climb a mountain in Scotland.

It's a very sentimental film there is no doubt, its about living life and not letting it slip by and dying not achieving your goals but sometimes on a weekend it's nice to just relax and watch something like this.

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.

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.

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.