Post-Sunday roast bloat pervades this sleepy drama, about a gang of print workers – headed up by union leader Smudge (Bob Hoskins in pork-pie hat) – who invest in a race horse. Bennett's Britain is a nostalgia-seeped pastiche, where there's a brassy blonde behind the bar in every smoky boozer. A few dips in the nosebag is enough.
Outside Bet – review
Bob Hoskins and his pork-pie hat star in a sleepy, nostalgia-seeped drama, writes Henry Barnes