HAMPSTEAD (12A)

WHO’S IN IT?

Diane Keaton (Annie Hall), Brendan Gleeson (Calvary), James Norton (Belle), Lesley Manville (Another Year), Jason Watkins (Confetti), Simon Callow (Viceroy’s House), Alistair Petrie (Rush), Peter Singh (Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa), Will Smith (In The Loop), Rosalind Ayres (Titanic), Brian Protheroe (Superman)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Joel Hopkins (Last Chance Harvey), director; Robert Festinger (In The Bedroom), writer; Robert Bernstein (Nowhere Boy) and Douglas Rae (Becoming Jane), producers; Stephen Warbeck (Shakespeare In Love), composer; Felix Wiedemann (City of Tiny Lights), cinematographer; Robin Sales (Johnny English), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

American widow Emily (Keaton) lives a quiet life in London, but suddenly finds a new fresh lease on life when she unexpectedly befriends Donald (Gleeson), a man living wild on Hampstead Heath who is keen to take on the developers that want to destroy his home…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Diane Keaton is her ever-charming self in this sweet romantic comedy that sees her working off of another accomplished actor, Brendan Gleeson, as effortlessly as she always has been.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 23RD JUNE 2017

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