EDIE (12A)

WHO’S IN IT?

Sheila Hancock (The Anniversary), Kevin Guthrie (Sunshine on Leith), Paul Brannigan (Under the Skin), Amy Manson (Not Another Happy Ending), Wendy Morgan (Yanks), Donald Pelmear (Consuming Passions), Tanya Winsor (To Love Somebody), Seoras Hearton (film debut), Shaun Cowan (film debut)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Simon Hunter (Mutant Chronicles), director; Elizabeth O’Halloran (film debut), writer; Mark Stothert (film debut), producer; Debbie Wiseman (Lesbian Vampire Killers), composer; August Jakobsson (Dramarama), cinematographer; Olly Stothert (Unlucky Plaza), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Edith Moore (Hancock) is an elderly woman who, following the death of her controlling husband, decides to fulfil a lifelong dream by climbing a Scottish mountain. Against the wishes of her daughter (Manson), she travels to Scotland where she employs local lad Jonny (Guthrie) to help her prepare for the climb, which leads to an unlikely friendship between the two of them…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Sheila Hancock shines in this inspiring tale of achieving an impossible dream with help coming from the least likely of places.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 25TH MAY 2018

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