PREVIEW: My Policeman (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Harry Styles (Don’t Worry Darling), Linus Roache (Mandy), Emma Corrin (Misbehaviour), Gina McKee (Phantom Thread), David Dawson (All the Old Knives), Rupert Everett (My Best Friend’s Wedding), Kadiff Kirwan (Mary Queen of Scots)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Michael Grandage (Genius), director; Ron Nyswaner (Philadelphia), writer; Greg Berlanti (Free Guy), Philip Herd (Archive), Cora Palfrey (Departure), Robbie Rogers (film debut) and Sarah Schechter (Moonshot), producers; Steven Price (Gravity), composer; Ben Davis (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri), cinematographer; Chris Dickens (Slumdog Millionaire), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

In 1950s Brighton, young policeman Tom Burgess (Styles) marries schoolteacher Marion Taylor (Corrin), while conducting an affair with museum curator Patrick Hazelwood (Dawson). However, their shared secret threatens to unravel when, forty years later, Patrick (Everett) unexpectedly shows up at the home of Tom (Roache) and Marion (McKee)…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Harry Styles continues to reach for movie stardom by taking on the role of a gay policeman in this tender British drama, in which the pop superstar features opposite The Crown standout Emma Corrin.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 4TH NOVEMBER 2022

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

STREAMING EXCLUSIVELY ON AMAZON PRIME VIDEO

 

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