Men Up

2023

Drama

3
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 78% · 9 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 50%
IMDb Rating 6.8/10 10 1310 1.3K

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Director

Ashley Way Photo
Ashley Way

Top cast

Katy Wix Photo
Katy Wix as Joanna Wootle
Iwan Rheon Photo
Iwan Rheon as Meurig Jenkins
Steffan Rhodri Photo
Steffan Rhodri as Colin White
Alexandra Roach Photo
Alexandra Roach as Ffion Jenkins
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800.82 MB
1280*640
English 2.0
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25 fps
1 hr 27 min
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1.45 GB
1920*960
English 2.0
NR
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25 fps
1 hr 27 min
Seeds 6

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by owen-watts 7 / 10

Cumru

This unexpectedly uplifting (pun intended) Welsh viagra dramedy from Banana collaborators RTD and Matthew Barry was splurged out after Christmas on the BBC and it's a solidly warm little package sculpted out of real events which has some hardness about it but is mostly fairly flaccid. Sorry. What it lacks in punch it makes for with a tremendously good cast, the strength of which alone convinced me to watch it. The great Rheon opposite the deeply underrated Roach are solid leads but it's really Steffan Rhodri's gentle Colin and Mark Lewis Jones's bruised Eddie that steal the show for me and pushes Men Up somewhere really deep. I'm finished.
Reviewed by christiansefton-60769 8 / 10

Life affirming TV with a lot of heart

Didn't know what to expect from a drama about a drug that treats erectile dysfunction and impotence. What I got was frank yet not gritty (as is usually the case), set in 90s Wales but not bleak, about sex but not sexy; all in all, it felt real, and did it's best to address as many different experiences of the men undergoing the trial as possible. I really enjoyed it. There are some excellent, believable performances in there too with (thankfully) no fake-sounding Welsh accents. There are 5 men to follow and somehow you end up caring about all of them, and their partners. Stefan Rhodri and Mark Lewis Jones' characters have some beautiful moments and stop Iwan Rheon stealing the slow. Definitely worth 87 minutes of your time.
Reviewed by ianharrison747 8 / 10

Sex, Swansea and Videotape.

Wow ! What a sensitive subject mixed with breast cancer, diabetes, the tribulations of being gay, suicide and a VHS video player that expires. Swansea, The Gower, Morriston Hospital adds a poignancy to the plot especially as my family roamed from the Rhondda.The cast were well balanced and it was fantastic not to be swamped by the star syndrome. Meurig played by Iwan Rheon just about stole it with his sensitivity, vulnerability and imitation of a boy who went up a mountain as a boy and came down as a man.The surprising use of humour without being smutty was the master stroke. ( Oops ...see it's almost impossible to avoid double entendres ). The variety of outcomes for the not famous five was very different and yet believable. A great body of work from writer Matthew Barry and director Ashley Way.
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