Comedy-drama Monogamy is served with a side of monotony

Janie Dee, who plays Caroline, performs well, with a Nigella-esque on-camera personality, and a wine-addicted selfish mother front when the film isn't rolling. Similarly, Jack Archer (son Leo) and Jack Sandle (the husband) do a stellar job -- the problem, in fact, isn't to do with the rather stunning acting. The plot, however, leaves a little to be desired, with a rather boring and repetitive storyline which feels much longer than it ought, or need, to be.

Four middle-aged friends set out to re-create Alfred Wainwright's coast-to-coast walk from St Bees to Robin Hood's Bay.

They start off in high enough spirits but their anxieties about money, sex, mortality and map reading become increasingly evident. The weather worsens. The friends' drunken antics cease seeming funny.

Torben Betts' screenplay for this engaging, quintessentially British road/rambling movie combines knockabout comedy with surprisingly bleak observations about the way the men's lives have all veered off course.