Comedy (Jack)

Finally! REG gets a starring role. Jack and Sarah is billed as a romantic comedy, but you get slapped in the face quite early on with a very real tragedy. REG plays Jack, a frantic father to be, and seeing him hang off the side of a car and run around crazily, you think it’s the same old stuff from REG, but when his wife dies in childbirth and Jack is left to look after the baby, his grief is overwhelming and he shuns his new born.

The warmth and love shown by his family and eventually by Jack is truly heartwarming. Baby Sarah is gorgeous and attracts the inevitable love interest, who appears in the form of a hapless American baby sitter played by Samantha Mathis. The story is “cute” it’s along the lines of Three Men and a Baby, but the range of emotions REG shows is fantastic. He saves this movie from being sappy, and it actually succeeds in being quite moving. Great supporting cast too…Judi Dench as his mum and Ian McKellen as his “man” are fabulous.

Best REG line: This isn’t so difficult!