DELIVERY MAN (12A)

WHO’S IN IT?

Vince Vaughn (Wedding Crashers), Chris Pratt (Zero Dark Thirty), Cobie Smulders (How I Met Your Mother), Andrzej Blumenfeld (The Pianist), Simon Delaney (The Good Wife), Bobby Moynihan (When In Rome), Adam Chanler-Berat (The Life Before Her Eyes), Britt Robertson (Dan In Real Life), Jack Reynor (What Richard Did)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Ken Scott (Starbuck), director, writer; André Rouleau (Goon), producer; Jon Brion (The Other Guys), composer; Eric Alan Edwards (Knocked Up), cinematographer; Priscilla Nedd-Friendly (American Pie), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

David (Vaughn) is an underachieving delivery man whose girlfriend (Smulders) is pregnant yet his life is going nowhere. However, a lawyer turns up one day to inform him that, as a result of him donating sperm in college, he is the biological father of 533 children, 142 of whom are suing to discover their father’s identity…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Ken Scott directs the American remake of his own Canadian hit Starbuck, with added Vince Vaughn to guarantee the laughs and pathos needed for a heavy story such as this.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 10TH JANUARY 2014

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