Stars: Kelly MacDonald, Ian Hart, Alun Armstrong, Brian Cox, Tommy Flanagan

Director: Peter Capaldi

Summary: A small time performer get much more than he bargained for when he sings a Elvis song for a crime boss...

Set in Glasgow, Scotland, a young man (Ian Hart) who is half Italian has a passion for Frank Sinatra and dreams of becoming a famous jazz musician. However, when he chooses a tough group of friends who he thinks will help him get recognized, he alienates his best friend and his girlfriend.

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Peter Capaldi, the writer and director of the vaguely amusing and almost engaging Strictly Sinatra, seems to have had two recent strains of British film-making on his mind: the Guy Ritchie school of modern mob capers and the post-modern urban Scottish noir of Shallow Graveand Trainspotting. Indeed Kelly MacDonald, who starred in the latter, appears in Strictly Sinatraas a similar rough-around-the-edges love interest.

The film revolves around what happens when hapless Glasgow lounge-singer Tony Cocozza (played by the always capable Ian Hart) crosses paths with the local Mafiosi. Their initial mutual attraction is derived from the ability of the parties to support each other's delusions: Cocozza wishes he was Sinatra, they wish they were Sinatra's dubious cronies. But Cocozza swiftly realises that he has, as the song goes, bitten off more than he can chew, and proceeds, predictably enough, from doubt to epiphany to redemption to happy ending.--Andrew Mueller

Aspect Ratio:	Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Year:	2000
Release Date:	July 21, 2003
Runtime:	97 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	820 517 7
Keywords:	General, Wide, Screen, Sinatra, Drama, Strictly
Genre:	Drama