I just fell in love with Happy-Go-Lucky. Sally Hawkins is amazing and deserved an Oscar nod. You start out the moving thinking she’s basically a nutter, and you kind of end up the movie with that impression as well, but somewhere along the line you begin to understand her and why she is the way she is, and question why you can’t look at life with the same joyful outlook as she does. It’s a nice change of pace from some of Mike Leigh’s other recent movies (Vera Drake, All or Nothing, Secrets & Lies), which are much more serious. If you have to have a lot of action and plot twists, this isn’t the film for you. However, if you can enjoy a good character films, this is definitely one to check out.