Q&A immediately following with director Edward Hall.
A spiritualist medium holds a séance for a writer suffering from writer s block but accidentally summons the spirit of his deceased first wife which leads to an increasingly complex love triangle with his current wife of five years. Based upon the 1941 play of the same name by Noël Coward, the British comedy is directed by Edward Hall and stars Judi Dench, Leslie Mann, Isla Fisher, and Emilia Fox, among others.
“We just feel like people could do with being cheered up at the moment,” says writer-producer Meg Leonard, while writer-producer Nick Moorcroft adds that “this is a movie where you want people to go out for the night with a gang of friends and just have a laugh and actually just forget about everything. Enjoy great scenery, great locations, great funny witty performances and lovely music.”
Commissioned by his father-in-law to transform one of his stories into a 90-page screenplay, Charles has struggled for inspiration, much to the frustration of his beloved Ruth (Isla Fisher). While she’s advised by her tennis partner to find “someone else to shake her sheets” in order for their marriage to last, Charles confesses that “Big Ben has stopped chiming” because of his other worries. Desperate for any kind of remedy, a trip to the theatre gives him an idea. Despite watching medium Madame Arcati’s (Judi Dench) act go awry, Charles is convinced her nightly “transcendent miracles” of communicating with the other side has exciting dramatic potential.