Wild Rose
After being released from a Glasgow prison, hooking up with her boyfriend (James Harkness), and visiting her estranged children (Daisy Littlefield and Adam Mitchell) who are being cared for by her disapproving mother (Julie Walters) in this entertaining, realistic, well-acted, down-to-earth, evenly paced, 101-minute film highlighted by upbeat country music, an ambitious, talented, energetic, cheeky Scottish singer (Jessie Buckley) is torn between her responsibilities as a mother and going to Nashville to make it as a country singer when she unexpectedly gets support and financial backing from a well-to-do African-American (Sophie Okonedo) for whom she cleans part time that permits her to go to London to meet with a music broadcaster (Bob Harris).
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