Synopsis
Super close mother Lyn and daughter Iona (Dafty One and Dafty Two) are excited for their new life in a new town. Determined to make a success of things after a tricky start, Iona becomes 'best friends' with Keely, Stacey and Chelsea. Used to being Iona's bestie herself, Lyn feels left out. So Lyn also makes friends with Belinda, her neighbour.
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Cast
- Joanna ScanlanLyn
- Lily NewmarkIona
- John HenshawPercy
- Chanel CresswellBelinda
- Isy SuttieAnne
- Bruce JonesStevie Babes
- Nadine CoyleAir Hostess
- Sacha Cordy-NiceKeely
- Saskia Paige MartinStacie
- Bethany AntoniaChelsea
Recommendations
- 83
The Playlist
Haywood brilliantly subverts her audience’s expectations at every step of the way. She introduces characters as tropes and steers them into the opposite direction. - 80
Empire
Uneven in places, Pin Cushion nonetheless offers a moving meditation on what it feels like to be different, elevated by great work from Joanna Scanlan and newcomer Lily Newmark. - 80
The New York Times
While Pin Cushion might prove too distressing for some, it’s still peculiarly, undeniably original. - 75
The A.V. Club
Pin Cushion is as quirky and as prickly as its title, an unclassifiable dramedy about bullying and mother-daughter relationships that proposes that mean-girl behavior doesn’t go away after high school. - 75
Movie Nation
Deborah Haywood’s Pin Cushion is an easy film to laud, a hard one to warm up to. - 70
Variety
Cinematically, Pin Cushion goes all in on a heightened, macramé-and-macaroons aesthetic that occasionally smothers the rawer nerves of its storytelling. - 70
Los Angeles Times
Scanlan is stunning as the odd but fiercely loving Lyn. She regards Iona warily, knowingly, seeing into her future and what she’s walking into, but with no way to stop it. - 70
Village Voice
Pin Cushion has the visual cues of comedy, with its candy-colored kitsch and exaggerated signifiers of eccentricity and snobbery, but at heart, it’s a tragedy of naïveté.
