PREVIEW: Dream Horse (PG)

WHO’S IN IT?

Toni Collette (Hereditary), Damian Lewis (Our Kind of Traitor), Owen Teale (Tolkien), Joanna Page (Love Actually), Nicholas Farrell (Chariots of Fire), Siân Phillips (The Age of Innocence), Karl Johnson (Hot Fuzz), Peter Davison (Patrick), Steffan Rhodri (Ironclad), Anthony O’Donnell (Vera Drake), Max Hutchinson (Downton Abbey), Lynda Baron (Diggity’s Treasure)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Euros Lyn (The Library Suicides), director; Neil McKay (Mad Money), writer; Katherine Butler (American Animals) and Tracy O’Riordan (The Selfish Giant), producers; Benjamin Woodgates (film debut), composer; Erik Wilson (Paddington), cinematographer; Jamie Pearson (The Man Who Invented Christmas), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

In a small town in the Welsh valleys, lonely supermarket attendant and barmaid Jan (Collette) inspires her community to help her breed and raise a racehorse. Naming it Dream Alliance, they help train the horse to beat the odds and become a champion…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Director Euros Lyn’s feel-good film about a racehorse that’s cheered on by a Welsh community is packed with charm and crowd-pleasing turns by the likes of Toni Collette and Damian Lewis.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 4TH JUNE 2021

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

IN CINEMAS NATIONWIDE

 

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