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Directed by
"A
major charismatic presence"
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My Fat Friend is a comedy for three
men and one woman. It
depicts the “ugly duckling story” of Victoria Hope, an overweight
young woman who runs a bookshop in Hampstead and who shares her flat
over the shop with a somewhat glum Scot, who works in an au pair capacity,
and her lodger, a young homosexual.
When she attracts the attention of a potential suitor, she
resolves to slim by hook or by crook.
Aided by her two friends, hard exercise, diet and a graph, she
manages to reduce to a streamlined version of her former self - only to
find that it was her rotundity that attracted the book-buyer in the
first place. When, on his
return, he finds himself confronted by a sylph, his disappointment is
only too apparent. The
newly slim Vicky is left alone once more, to be consoled by her
effeminate lodger.
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