PREVIEW: A Boy Called Christmas (PG)

WHO’S IN IT?

Henry Lawfull (film debut), Jim Broadbent (Iris), Zoe Colletti (Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark), Sally Hawkins (The Shape of Water), Michiel Huisman (The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society), Toby Jones (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), Maggie Smith (The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel), Rune Temte (Captain Marvel), Indica Watson (Radioactive), Kristen Wiig (Wonder Woman 1984), Stephen Merchant (Jojo Rabbit), Rishi Kuppa (Come Away), Joel Fry (Cruella)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Gil Kenan (Monster House), director, writer; Ol Parker (Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again!), writer; Graham Broadbent (The Last Letter From Your Lover) and Peter Czernin (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri), producers; Dario Marianelli (Atonement), composer; Zac Nicholson (The Personal History of David Copperfield), cinematographer; Richard Ketteridge (film debut) and Peter Lambert (The Death of Stalin), editors

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Nikolas (Lawfull) is an ordinary young boy who sets out on an extraordinary adventure with his pet mouse Miika (Merchant) and a headstrong reindeer named Blitzen to the snowy white north, in search a fabled village of elves where he will meet his destiny as the legend himself Father Christmas…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

The magical origins of Father Christmas are revealed in this wondrous and delightfully festive family adventure with an all-star cast that includes British thespians Jim Broadbent, Sally Hawkins and Maggie Smith.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 26TH NOVEMBER 2021

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

IN CINEMAS NATIONWIDE, AND STREAMING EXCLUSIVELY ON SKY CINEMA AND NOW

 

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