 How About You
Starring: Hayley Atwell, Joss Ackland, Brenda Fricker, Orla Brady, Vanessa Redgrave
Directed by: Anthony Byrne
Screenplay by: Jean Pasley
Release Date: January 9, 2009
MPAA Rating: None.
Studio: Strand Releasing
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 How About You is a 2007 Irish film directed by Anthony Byrne. The film is based on a short story of the same name by Maeve Binchy.
"How About You" tells the story of Ellie, a young woman left in charge of the residential home run by her older sister, over the Christmas period. Whilst most of the residents have left to spend the festive period with their families, four residents, known as 'the hardcore' remain. Their behavior is so terrible that the home faces closure as potential new residents are put off by their appalling antics.
This small, noisy movie, directed by Anthony Byrne and adapted by Jean Pasley, changes its tune come Christmas time. The home's proprietress (Orla Brady) turns the place and its four terrors - Redgrave, the Falstaffian Joss Ackland, and, as a curly-haired sister act, Brenda Fricker and Imelda Staunton - over to her unserious little sibling (Hayley Atwell). The oldsters run her ragged for a few scenes, but eventually the young woman gives them the business right back. The harrumphing ceases. The healing begins. It's all terribly sentimental without being truly terrible.
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