Reviewed by Bruce Cantwell "Come Along, Candice Marie," calls the booming, balding, country code following Keith Pratt (Robert Slocum). It's not his daughter trying to keep up with him as he bounds ahead past Corfe Castle in Dorset, England, it's his wife. Candice Marie (Alison Steadman) pauses as a feature of the castle ruins catches her attention. "What's that over there?" she asks her guidebook hoarding dragon of a spouse. "Number four!" Keith booms. For better or worse, these two holier-than-thou, vegetarian, holiday travelers with the correct footwear for every type of terrain and the politically correct position on everything from litter to pasteurization have found each other and woe is he who crosses their intransigent path. Take Ray (Anthony O'Donnell) for example. Does he know that he shouldn't be listening to his radio because it will interfere with the Pratts' communion with nature (nature, in this case, being a clearing where for a pound a night one can pitch a pup tent and wash up in a shack with running water)? It's bad enough that the poor PE student has to study geology. Does he really deserve to be forced into singalongs with the wacky Pratts on his sorry excuse for a holiday? Nuts in May is Mike Leigh's most consistently funny slice of life and Robert Slocom's Keith Pratt perhaps the most self-satisfied pest who ever stepped into a Mike Leigh device. Alison Steadman's childlike Candice Marie is likable enough in her own way but comes off worse for her assocation. When Ray goes to light up a cigarette, she lectures him about how horrified he would be if one of his lungs were taken out and halved before his eyes. Nuts in May isn't a big film in any sense of the word but it creates an unforgettable couple inhabiting a masterpiece in miniature.

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