PREVIEW: The Outfit (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Mark Rylance (The Phantom of the Open), Zoey Deutch (Buffaloed), Dylan O’Brien (The Maze Runner), Johnny Flynn (Beast), Simon Russell Beale (The Death of Stalin), Nikki Amuka-Bird (The Personal History of David Copperfield), Alan Mehdizadeh (film debut)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Graham Moore (film debut), director, writer; Johnathan McClain (film debut), writer; Ben Browning (Promising Young Woman), Amy Jackson (The Nest) and Scoop Wasserstein (Hijacked), producers; Alexandre Desplat (The Imitation Game), composer; Dick Pope (Mr. Turner), cinematographer; William Goldenberg (Argo), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

In the 1950s, Leonard (Rylance) is an English tailor who used to make suits on London’s famous Savile Row, but after a personal tragedy now resides in Chicago, where he runs a small tailor shop in a rough, gangster-ridden neighbourhood. One night, two killers – Ritchie (O’Brien) and Francis (Flynn) – come knocking at Leonard’s door, forcing the tailor to try and survive the night…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Graham Moore, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of The Imitation Game, makes his directorial debut with this tense gangster thriller starring fellow Oscar-winner Mark Rylance.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 8TH APRIL 2022

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

IN CINEMAS NATIONWIDE

 

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