WHAT WE DID ON OUR HOLIDAY (12A)

WHO’S IN IT?

David Tennant (Doctor Who), Rosamund Pike (The World’s End), Billy Connolly (Brave), Celia Imrie (The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel), Ben Miller (Armstrong and Miller), Emilia Jones (One Day), Amelia Bullmore (Sherlock), Annette Crosbie (One Foot In The Grave), Lewis Davie (film debut), Ben Presley (film debut), Jake D’Arcy (Still Game), Bobby Smalldridge (Foster), Alexia Barlier (Conversations With My Gardener)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin (Outnumbered), directors, writers; David M. Thompson (Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom) and Dan Winch (film debut), producers; Alex Heffes (The Last King of Scotland), composer; Martin Hawkins (Mrs Brown’s Boys D’Movie), cinematographer; Steve Tempia (Men Behaving Badly) and Mark Williams (Boomers), editors

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Doug (Tennant) and Abi (Pike), along with their three children, drive up to the Scottish Highlands in time for Doug’s father Gordie’s (Connolly) birthday party, but it soon becomes clear that Doug and Abi are hiding a secret from the rest of the family, and that as they try to contain it their children are their biggest liability…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

The creators of hit sitcom Outnumbered translate that show’s unnervingly real portrayal of family into a feature film which goes one step further in demonstrating its importance to every single one of us.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 26TH SEPTEMBER 2014

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