In director Coky Geidroyc's 1999 Edinburgh-based "Women Talking Dirty" single mum Helena Bonham Carter (over-cooking the zany) is bedded & impregnated by James Purefoy, who she THEN learns is the philandering bounder husband of her new best pal Gina McKee (good)... but she doesn't tell McKee (!) despite being blameless & the truth being clearly primed to emerge sometime... which (surprise!) it does years later at a drunken dinner party with James Nesbitt, Eileen Atkins, Richard Wilson & Kenneth Cranham. Despite Bonham Carter's performance & numerous holes in Isla Dewar's screenplay, it's a watchable enough dramedy (just about).

Largely dull film with peculiar characters in hard to believe but uneventful & irritating situations. Jimmy Nesbitt & Richard Wilson were good but were not in it enough. The film plods along all centered around a single storyline & situation that any normal person would have resolved in 5 minutes. You'll spend most of it longing the Bonham-Carter character to come clean, which had she had done the next morning probably wouldn't have resulted in anything longer than a two minute row, as she had done little wrong, but instead it's dragged out over three years. Still, I made it through to the end easily.

3/10

If you are looking for an action-packed, edge-of-your-seat movie then this is not for you. However, this is in fact the perfect "quiet-night-in movie". I always like a story every now and again that has no major suspense, but you still find yourself glued to the screen. If it lasted forever I can safely say I would have continued watching this.

Men, do not be drawn aback by the title - the story tells of two women, one a failed student and the other a shy cartoonist, who fall into an extremely unlikely friendship, and experience the ups and downs of becoming best friends. You are never bored during this, as it tells of how their love lives interfere with their friendship. The arguments pile on to you, and leave your mind thinking and taking in the movie's key messages, whilst the jokes leave you smiling and enjoying the fun of this film.

This is a well acted drama, perfectly casted and worth a watch for those interested in movies about companionship, love, hatred and much much more...Definitely two thumbs up!