Thornton, as you would expect, walks off with this quality re-make of the l960 film about learning how to be a winner… mostly by cheating.

Goldwyn – yes, he’s son of Sam – fashions a satisfying family saga of relationships and anxieties about future domestic bliss in what turns out to be more than a mere standard work of human behaviour.

We are being invaded by firemen, what with a new drama starting on Sky and this film.

What has gone wrong with the Jones films is that the central character shouldn't be female at all.