The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #165855   Message #3983326
Posted By: Steve Shaw
20-Mar-19 - 08:23 AM
Thread Name: Fisherman's Friends. The Film.
Subject: RE: Fisherman's Friends. The Film.
It's a lovely, warm-hearted film, full of, er, poetic licence. The actors don't resemble the real chaps at all, the hard-bitten Cornishness is way overdone, etc, but it's a great yarn with the obligatory rocky romance (what a lovely woman too!) and happy ending. It was all filmed in genuine Port Isaac, as lovely an area as you could wish to have, and all the coastal scenes were filmed near the village, none of yer Poldark licence. As we're locals, it was great to see all the gorgeous scenery that we're so familiar with. But be warned that Port Isaac is impossibly heaving in summer. What with Doc Martin, a weak pound and now this, this year will be even worse! Pick a nice day in late spring or September, go for a walk on the cliffs above the village and you're in heaven!