KEANU (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Keegan-Michael Key (Let’s Be Cops), Jordan Peele (Wanderlust), Method Man (How High), Tiffany Haddish (Janky Promoters), Darrell Britt-Gibson (Toe to Toe), Jason Mitchell (Straight Outta Compton), Jamar Malachi Neighbors (Underbelly Blues), Will Forte (MacGruber), Luis Guzmán (Magnolia), Nia Long (Big Momma’s House), Rob Huebel (The Descendants)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Peter Atencio (The Rig), director; Jordan Peele (Key and Peele), writer, producer; Alex Rubens (Community), writer; Keegan-Michael Key (film debut), Peter Principato (Central Intelligence), Paul Young (The Virginity Hit) and Joel Zadak (film debut), producers; Steve Jablonsky (Transformers) and Nathan Whitehead (The Purge), composers; Jas Shelton (Cyrus), cinematographer; Nicholas Monsour (Oh My Soul), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Rell (Peele), depressed after his girlfriend breaks up with him, finds a small kitten at his doorstep and takes an instant liking to it. Naming it Keanu, Rell starts to become much happier – until one day he comes home to find it’s been ransacked, and Keanu is gone. Along with his cousin Clarence (Key), Rell discovers that Keanu actually belongs to a dangerous gangster, and now both men find themselves on a dangerous and violent journey through a harsh gangland in order to rescue their beloved kitten…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Combining vicious gang violence with the most adorable little kitten you’ll ever see, comedy duo Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele – better known as Key and Peele – bring to the big screen this laugh-out-loud satire on gangster movies.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 15TH JULY 2016

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