Cemetery Junction
Who's in it?
Ricky Gervais, Ralph Fiennes, Emily Watson, Christian Cooke, Tom Hughes, Jack Doolan
Plot
Cemetery Junction tells the funny, touching and universal story of being trapped in a small town and dreaming of escape. In 1970s England, three blue-collar friends spend their days joking, drinking, fighting and chasing girls.
Freddie (Christian Cooke) wants to leave their working-class world but cool, charismatic Bruce (Tom Hughes) and lovable loser Snork (Jack Doolan) are happy with life the way it is. When Freddie gets a new job as a door-to-door salesman and bumps into his old school sweetheart Julie (Felicity Jones), the gang are forced to make choices that will change their lives for ever.
Ralph Fiennes (The Reader, Schindlers List), Ricky Gervais (The Invention of Lying, Ghost Town), Emily Watson (Synecdoche, New York, Breaking the Waves) and Matthew Goode (Watchmen, Brideshead Revisited) feature alongside stars-of-the-future Christian Cooke, Felicity Jones, Tom Hughes and Jack Doolan.
What the critics say
Good looks, cool characters, great music. Gervais and Merchant’s film is the most confident British debut since Shallow Grave. Andy Lowe (Total Film)
It's deftly written, unobtrusively directed and nicely acted, indicating Gervais (along with Merchant) does have a future as a film director after all. Adam Smith (Radio Times)
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