Hawkins is as good as ever in this lighthearted take on the fight for equal pay in UK. Yes, yes, it can get bogged down by cliches at times. But for the most part, it achieves a delicate balance of humor, wit, and heartbreak with a touch of realism to keep it from devolving into saccharine unbearableness. Probably not the most accurate portrayal of the real event but as entertainment, it does its job.

It's not bad at all, but there's a real lack of drama. You know the outcome from the word go and it just merrily trundles there unopposed.

Hawkins is great (as it's all-too-easy to expect now), but the film isn't as interesting as the underlying story would have you believe. Graves, Pike and Schiff all put in great performances, but Daniel Mays sticks out like a sore thumb, and manages to drag the whole thing down accordingly.

Pretty lightweight, but decent performances. Hawkins is great.

A respectable film about labor in the 60s. There certainly isn't anything in it that will surprise you, but it does a good job building through the duration and making you feel the momentum of the equal pay movement. Sally Hawkins does a good job, although I do wish she would stop sounding like she's about to burst into tears during speeches.

The theme was a need, but as a movie it was way too mild. The beginning was even a bit boring. Anyway the most of the cast did they part nice, specially Sally Hawkins. I still don't understand why Richardson's got nomination, not Sally.

a cute little film with every possible cliche of `fight for your rights` type of movies .. unexpectedly good performances in supporting roles

"Sally Hawkins is convincing enough; it's the rest of the movie that isn't." - Andrew Schenker

Cole's appreciation for how women cope and achieve goes in the right direction, more so than the pathetic sob stories by which Tyler Perry, Oprah Winfrey and Lee Daniels have stereotyped African- American female experience.

Though somewhat cliched, this is an uplifting film with great performances.

An interesting recent historical piece.

Watched on a plane, so didn't get the full effect. Enjoyed it enough to recommend or watch again.

"While the story of these striking seat-cover seamstresses is well worth telling (and sadly still relevant, given the nee for last year's Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act), screenwriter William Ivory and director Nigel Cole do not tell it well."

A talented cast portrays one the beginning threads of the modern women's lib movement. The actors who portrayed the "bad guys" were particularly convincing.

Perhaps a bit too light-hearted for its own good, especially with this sort of subject matter.