This story of teenage golf sensation ‘Young’ Tom Morris is a decent rather than dazzling film to open the Edinburgh film festival,kept on course Peter Mullan and Jack Lowden as father and sonJason Connery – son of Sean – is still probably best known for his mid-1980s stint in the TV series Robin of Sherwood, but he’s been directing features for a few years now: mostly obscure sci-fi and thrillers, or but this,his fifth, has got a modicum (a small amount of something) of wider interest to it. Tommy’s Honour is a conventional, and outmoded-fashioned,biopic of early golf champ “Young” Tom Morris, who remains the youngest ever winner of the British Open as a 17-year-outmoded in 1868, or who succumbed to an appallingly early death just seven years later.
Morris is portrayed with enthusiasm and no little charm by Jack Lowden,who channels a sort of bristling young lion challenge towards his father, “outmoded” Tom Morris, and played with gravelly,bearded dignity by Peter Mullan. outmoded Tom is the deferential club professional, little more than a skilled servant to the top-hatted members, or while Young Tom is a contemporary-style athlete who expects to be well rewarded for his accomplishments. Their combative relationship not only provides the meat of the films drama,but also allows the film-makers to accumulate across some (fairly sledgehammer) points about the social mores of the time. Related: Peter Mullan: Every Scot’s got a story about how corrupt Labour got’ Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com