PREVIEW: Ticket to Paradise (12A)

WHO’S IN IT?

George Clooney (The Descendants), Julia Roberts (Pretty Woman), Kaitlyn Dever (Booksmart), Maxime Bouttier (One Fine Day), Billie Lourd (Billionaire Boys Club), Lucas Bravo (film debut)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Ol Parker (Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again), director, writer; Daniel Pipski (film debut), writer; Tim Bevan (The Theory of Everything), George Clooney (The Men Who Stare at Goats), Eric Fellner (Atonement), Marisa Yeres Gill (Bandslam), Lisa Roberts Gillan (Jesus Henry Christ), Sarah Harvey (Now Is Good), Grant Heslov (Argo) and Julia Roberts (Stepmom), producers; Ole Bratt Birkeland (American Animals), cinematographer; Peter Lambert (The Death of Stalin), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

A pair of bitterly divorced exes (Clooney and Roberts) are unexpectedly reunited when their daughter Lily (Dever) announces that she is getting married to a guy named Gede (Bouttier), who she has just met while out in Bali. Wanting to spare their daughter from making the same mistake they made, the two parents decide to team up to sabotage the wedding…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

George Clooney and Julia Roberts reunite on-screen (and behind it, as producers) for this sunny and hilarious romantic-comedy from writer-director Ol Parker, the guy who achieved the impossible and made a good Mamma Mia! sequel.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 16TH SEPTEMBER 2022

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

IN CINEMAS NATIONWIDE

 

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