THE PROM (12A)

WHO’S IN IT?

Meryl Streep (Mamma Mia!), James Corden (Cats), Nicole Kidman (Moulin Rouge!), Keegan-Michael Key (Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey), Andrew Rannells (The Boys in the Band), Jo Ellen Pellman (film debut), Ariana DeBose (Hamilton), Kerry Washington (Django Unchained), Kevin Chamberlin (Christmas with the Kranks), Sofia Deler (film debut), Logan Riley Hassel (Gibby), Mary Kay Place (Diane), Nathaniel J. Potvin (A World Away), Nico Greetham (From Within), Tracey Ullman (Into the Woods)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Ryan Murphy (Running with Scissors), director, producer; Chad Beguelin (film debut) and Bob Martin (film debut), writers, producers; Jack Viertel (Delusion), writer; Matthew Sklar (film debut), producer, composer; Adam Anders (film debut), Dori Berinstein (Gotta Dance), Bill Damaschke (Shark Tale), Alexis Martin Woodall (A Secret Love) and Scott Robertson (Foxcatcher), producers; David Klotz (Wis You Were Dead), composer; Matthew Libatique (A Star Is Born), cinematographer; Peggy Tachdjian (Hungry) and Danielle Wang (Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong), editors

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

After their expensive new Broadway show flops and flatlines their careers, self-absorbed actors Dee Dee Allen (Streep), Barry Glickman (Corden), Angie Dickinson (Kidman) and Trent Oliver (Rannells) attempt to reclaim their stardom by heading to a conservative town in Indiana in support of high school student Emma Nolan (Pellman), who has been denied permission to take her girlfriend to the prom…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Ryan Murphy assembles a stellar cast from Meryl Streep to Nicole Kidman for his uproarious adaptation of the funny and uplifting hit Broadway musical of the same name.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 11TH DECEMBER 2020 (AVAILABLE ON NETFLIX)

 

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