Miranda (Marc Munden, 2015)

One of those low-budget pieces where English filmmakers, hopeful of an international audience, shoehorn in a few big names, in this case Christina Ricci, John Hurt and Kyle MacLachlan, Miranda centres on John Simm's innocent librarian, who falls in love with Ricci's mysterious Yank. She turns out to have quite another real history involving large-scale property fraud, but with this basically being a romantic comedy, he's undeterred and pursues her all the way to a happy ending through encounters with her nutjob mark, MacLachlan as a pervy banker. It's flimsy stuff and really tries far too hard to be off-centre, with Ricci also highly unconvincing as a femme fatale, but at least the dialogue has enough wit about it to provide some relief.

4/10