Cast:Monica Dolan, Earl Cave, Rob Brydon, Elliot Speller-Gillott, Tamsin Greig, Alice Lowe, Ony Uhiara, Paul Bradley, Grace Hogg-Robinson, Nathanael Saleh, George Wilkins, Alfie Todd, Gurlaine Kaur Garcha, Sophie Steer, Lesley Harcourt, Indeyarna Donaldson-Holness, Paul Bradley, Tim Key, Rodrig Andrisan, Alex Ashman, Olivia Buckland, Alan Cassidy, Toby Cordes, Patrick Holly, George Mizen, David Sullivan, Stuart Whelan
Synopsis
The Inbetweeners star Simon Bird's directorial debut is a funny, charming and wince-inducingly accurate adaptation of Joff Winterhart's graphic novel, with a soundtrack by Belle & Sebastian. Days of the Bagnold Summer (2019) sweetly draws you into the wobbly relationship between well-intentioned single librarian Sue Bagnold and her black-clad teenage son Daniel, who'd rather listen to Metallica than his mother. Daniel was meant to spend the summer in Florida visiting his dad, but is now stuck with Mum following the trip's cancellation. The film boasts supporting turns by Rob Brydon and Alice Lowe, but belongs to its two leads. Long-suffering Sue is sympathetically portrayed by Monica Dolan, with Earl Cave's Daniel a suitably lank-haired, pale-skinned picture of adolescent metal-head angst.
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