 "Cuckoo" was premiered in September 2009 at the Cambridge Film Festival, where Clive James called the film "masterly and thrilling", and was released in UK cinemas by Verve Pictures in December 2010.On UK cinema release David Edwards wrote in a four-star "Daily Mirror" review, that the film was "an unsettling, unconventional ... quite unlike anything our film industry is pumping out these days", adding that "Fraser is superb as a woman who just might be on the verge of a nervous breakdown".Other positive reviews included Jason Solomons in "The Mail on Sunday", who wrote