Ray hears the singing and realizes at once that he's in the presence of an extraordinary talent. She brings him home from a pub and suggests, "Let's roll about." One night a duel develops, between Mari playing "It's Not Unusual" downstairs and Laura doing "That's Entertainment" upstairs. Her new squeeze is Ray Say ( Michael Caine), a onetime London club promoter now reduced to managing strippers in this northern backwater. She's a loud, blowzy tart who picks up lads at pubs and brings them home. The rest of the house is ruled by her mother, Mari ( Brenda Blethyn, the Oscar nominee from " Secrets and Lies"). She shares his taste for classic pop records, and plays them again and again, memorizing the great performances. She plays a young woman named Laura, who mopes in her bedroom above the record store that her late, beloved dad used to run. Horrocks first appeared in this story on the stage (it was written for her by Jim Cartwright), and now in the movie she repeats an astonishing performance, which is plopped down into an amusing but uneven story about colorful characters in a northern England seaside resort town.
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