LIFE ITSELF (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Oscar Isaac (Inside Llewyn Davis), Olivia Wilde (Rush), Mandy Patinkin (Wonder), Olivia Cooke (Ready Player One), Laia Costa (Victoria), Annette Bening (American Beauty), Antonio Banderas (Desperado), Àlex Monner (The Wild Ones), Jean Smart (I Heart Huckabees), Sergio Peris-Mencheta (The Borgia), Lorenza Izzo (The House with a Clock in its Walls), Samuel L. Jackson (Pulp Fiction), Caitlin Carmichael (Wheelman), Jordana Rose (film debut), Kya Kruse (film debut), Alisa Sushkova (film debut), Yeray Alba León (film debut), Pablo LagÜens Abad (film debut), Javier Verdugo Luque (film debut), Adrian Marrero (film debut)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Dan Fogelman (Danny Collins), director, writer; Marty Bowen (First Man), Wyck Godfrey (The Fault In Our Stars) and Aaron Ryder (Transcendence), producers; Federico Jusid (The Secret In Their Eyes), composer; Brett Pawlak (The Glass Castle), cinematographer; Julie Monroe (Gigli), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Spanning numerous years over multiple generations, the collective lives of very different people – including a New York couple (Isaac and Wilde) expecting a child, a Spanish couple (Peris-Mencheta and Costa) whose romance is overseen by his kindly boss (Banderas), and the grown children from both couples (Cooke and Moner) – are all connected by a single, tragic event…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

The creator of hit TV drama This Is Us brings his talents for multi-generational melodrama to the big screen, with a starry ensemble cast working their hardest to draw out all kinds of emotions from the audience.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 4TH JANUARY 2019

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