Movie Review

Wah-Wah (2006)

Reviewed by Lisa Schwarzbaum | May 10, 2006

Lisa Schwarzbaum

Lisa Schwarzbaum is a film critic for EW

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EW's GRADE

C+

Details Limited Release: May 12, 2006; Rated: R; Length: 97 Minutes; Genre: Drama; With: Gabriel Byrne and Emily Watson

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Pace the personal dramas in Wah-Wah out over the course of five years and you've got the makings of a cracking British TV soap, one of those awfully atmospheric things set in colonial Africa involving booze, adultery, and racial and class conflict. Cram it into one semiautobiographical filmmaking debut for actor Richard E. Grant (Withnail & I) and you've got an overdeveloped coming-of-age potboiler set on the eve of Swaziland's independence. About a Boy's Nicholas Hoult plays Grant's stand-in, Ralph, coping with a mother (Miranda Richardson) who runs off with another man; an alcoholic father (Gabriel Byrne); and an outspoken American stepmother (Emily Watson), who identifies foppish British slang as so much ''wah-wah.''

Originally posted May 10, 2006 Published in issue #877 May 19, 2006 Order article reprints

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