PREVIEW: Off The Rails (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Kelly Preston (Jerry Maguire), Jenny Seagrove (Appointment with Death), Sally Phillips (Bridget Jones’s Diary), Elizabeth Dormer-Phillips (film debut), Ben Miller (Johnny English), Franco Nero (Enter the Ninja), Judi Dench (Skyfall), Andrea Corr (The Commitments), Peter Bowles (The Bank Job)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Jules Williamson (film debut), director; Jordan Waller (Two Heads Creek), writer; Bill Kenwright (Don’t Go Breaking My Heart) and Arabella Page Croft (Sunshine on Leith), producers; Mario Grigorov (The Paperboy), composer; Mike Eley (The Selfish Giant), cinematographer; Malcolm Crowe (The Fanatic), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Estranged friends Cassie (Preston), Kate (Seagrove) and Liz (Phillips) are reunited after the death of their friend Anna (Corr). At the funeral, they learn that Anna’s dying wish was for the three of them, along with Anna’s 17-year-old daughter Maddie (Dormer-Phillips), to travel across Europe and complete a journey they couldn’t quite finish when they were younger. Now in their mid-50s, the women put their differences aside and go on a perilous European adventure to honour their friend’s final wishes…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Get ready to laugh and lap up the sun in this Euro-centric adventure-comedy about middle-aged female friendship, which not only features the songs of Blondie on the soundtrack, but more poignantly also features the final lead performance of Kelly Preston, who sadly passed away last year.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 23RD JULY 2021

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

IN CINEMAS NATIONWIDE

 

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