DAYS OF THE BAGNOLD SUMMER (12A)

WHO’S IN IT?

Earl Cave (True History of the Kelly Gang), Monica Dolan (Pride), Rob Brydon (Holmes and Watson), Alice Lowe (Sightseers), Tamsin Greig (Tamara Drewe), Nathanael Saleh (Mary Poppins Returns), Grace Hogg-Robinson (Two For Joy), Elliot Speller-Gillott (film debut), Lesley Harcourt (The Scampi Trail), George Wilkins (film debut)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Simon Bird (film debut), director; Lisa Owens (film debut), writer; Matthew James Wilkinson (Yesterday), producer; Simon Tindall (Fisherman’s Friends), cinematographer; Ash White (film debut), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Moody teenager Daniel (Cave) learns that instead of spending his summer with his father and his new wife in Florida, he is to stay with his quiet librarian mother Sue (Dolan) for six weeks. A war of wills escalates between the two, but they soon start to form a meaningful mother-son relationship…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Friday Night Dinner and The Inbetweeners star Simon Bird makes his directorial debut with a funny and heart-warming coming-of-age story with an oedipal twist.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

MONDAY 8TH JUNE 2020 (AVAILABLE ON VOD)

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