The trouble with stereotypes is that they leave no room for exceptional people who defy expectations. These high risers come in all colors, ethnicities, and creeds. For God’s sake, as the rousing, darkly comic, lightly tragic, everyday heroic tale of Aberdeen (2000) proves, even lady lawyers are capable of redeeming themselves. Sly and stacked brunette Lena Headey is fetching and heart catching as a doping, recreationally sexing London lawyer who is bidden back home to Aberdeen by her ailing Scottish mother. The dutiful but dissolute daughter is charged with locating and transporting her drunk dad to the family hearth so that the primal unit may unite in the waning hours of Ma’s dying days. The pains and the pleasures of Aberdeen are universal and attest to the sacred brotherhood of all mankind.