Film
2024 (Ireland/UK), (Comedy/Drama)
Director: Darren Thornton
Starring: James McArdle, Fionnula Flanagan, Dearbhia Molloy
Winner of the BFI London Film Festival 2024 Audience Award for Best Feature.
Edward is a budding novelist and full-time carer to his bossy mother. Patient and dedicated, he fears leaving her to promote his latest book overseas. An unexpected complication will come in the form of three additional prickly mothers dumped on his doorstep by his friends, when they trade Irish suburbia for the sunny delights of Pride in Gran Canaria. What follows is a hilarious weekend, punctuated by deeply moving moments.
(1h 29mins)