PREVIEW: The Nan Movie (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Catherine Tate (SuperBob), Matthew Horne (Lesbian Vampire Killers), Niky Wardley (Really), Katherine Parkinson (The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society), Ruchika Jain (People in Landscape), Bill Murphy (Ordinary Decent Criminal), Tim Laubscher (Thursday’s Child), Pete Bennett (Jack Southeast), Parker Sawyers (Southside with You), Felix Scott (Artifacts), Rebecca Trehearn (film debut)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Josie Rourke (Mary Queen of Scots), director; Brett Goldstein (SuperBob) and Catherine Tate (film debut), writers; Damian Jones (The Iron Lady), producer; Michael Bruce (film debut), composer; Christos Karamanis (Norway), cinematographer; Liam Hendrix Heath (Greed) and James Taylor (Bull), editors

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Joanie Taylor (Tate), the elderly and cantankerous nan of long-suffering Jamie (Horne), recalls her unpredictable, and appropriately naughty, backstory…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Catherine Tate revives one of her most beloved characters for a feature-length spin-off that finally explores the origins of Britain’s most foul-mouthed grandmother.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 18TH MARCH 2022

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

IN CINEMAS NATIONWIDE

 

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