Stars: Rob Brydon, Regina Freedman

Director: Hugo Blick

Summary: The complete first series of the comedy about a cab driver whose wife has run off with her boss.

Marion is min-cab driver Keith's wife. Geoff is the man she's run off with. She's taken Keith's "little smashers," his kids Rhys and Alun, with her. MARION & GEOFF is simply a series of monologues from Keith, with his camera fixed to his dashboard, as he goes about his daily life. His bleak, darkly funny and ever-optimistic commentary to the unseen, off-camera downward-spiralling developments in his sad, estranged existence, expose him as a true innocent. These 10-minute monologues are compulsive, car-crash comedy.

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Originally broadcast in 10-minute segments on BBC2, Marion &Geoffis a very funny if at times unrelentingly bleak comedy in which Rob Brydon plays Keith, a hapless cuckold who addresses us via a camcorder set up in his mini-cab. The Marion and Geoff of the title are his estranged wife and her new lover, though as Keith--who never fails to perceive a bright side to his utterly dismal existence--says, "I don't feel I've lost a wife, I've gained a friend."

Through his monologues, we learn that Keith has a room in a student house where banging techno is played day and night; that in order to make the journey to see his two boys, he must make an overnight journey from London to Cardiff by car; that his only friend is a tollbooth operator (though the operator doesn't seem to know it) and that, although he's been driving a minicab for a while, he's yet to pick up a fare.

Keith's attempts to buy presents for his children generally backfire ("I've kept the receipts. I learned that from my old dad. He always used to say keep the receipts"), no more heartrendingly so than in an evidently disastrous attempt to pay a surprise visit to the newly attached Marion and the kids in Disneyland. As he hugs the tiny Winnie the Pooh puppets he's tried to give to his children, his uniformly chipper tone wavers momentarily and the comedy threatens to darken into something like tragedy. However, Keith's indomitable if inappropriate optimism eventually enables him to bumble through. Masterly in its veracity and Pooteresque banality, Marion &Geoffis as near-flawless as The Office.

On the DVD:Marion &Geoffon disc comes with an informative if somewhat giggly commentary, featuring Brydon and director and cowriter Hugo Blick. There's the Comic Reliefspecial, in which Keith's cheque to the charity bounces with typically pitiful consequences and outtakes from the series, all of which would have merited inclusion in the final edit. --David Stubbs

Aspect Ratio:	4:3
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Special Commentary From Rob Brydon And Hugo Blick, 18 Minutes Of Outtakes, Comic Relief Special, Photo Gallery
Year:	2000
Release Date:	February 17, 2003
Runtime:	100 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	B B C D V D 1116
Keywords:	Comedy, General, Series, Geoff, Marion, Tv
Genre:	Comedy