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WIDE BLUE YONDER

• Completed shooting: In post production, delivery August 2008
• Location: Norway
• Genre: Feel Good Comedy

• CAST:
• Brian Cox
  • (Zodiac; The Bourne Supremacy; Troy)
• Lauren Bacall
  • (Dogville; The Mirror has Two faces; Murder on the Orient Express)
• James Fox
  • (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; The Prince and Me; Sexy Beast)
• Hege Schøyen
  • (Suffløsen; Andre Omgang; Den Ofrivilliga Golfaren)
• Ingrid Bolso Berdal
  • (Fritt Vilt; Sons)
• Kåre Conradi
  • (The last Fox Hunt; 37½; Sofie’s World)
• Sverre Anker Ousdal
  • (The Secret Life of Words; Insomnia)
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• Director: Robert Young
• Writer: Hugh Janes from his original stage play

 

 

Wally (Brian Cox) promised his best friend of 40 years burial–at–sea. The fact that he hasn’t got the body, a boat or any money, isn’ going to stop him keeping his word. However, his adversary, Froken Reimark (Hege Schøyen), administrator of the retirement community where Wally lives, has other plans for him and the deceased.

In 48 hours Wally must snatch the body, win the cash, find a boat, perform the burial and escape – but first, he needs a plan. However, Wally is a doer, not a planner.

When the serious Colonel Hansen (James Fox) is moved into Wally’s room, only the delightful May (Lauren Bacall) prevents outright war between them and charms the un-adventurous Colonel into using his military expertise to devise a plan.

Enlisting the help of his young, bohemian friend Nina (Ingrid Bolso Berdal) and windsurfing architect Ben (Kare Conradi), Wally sets out to achieve the plan’s objectives, which combines the almost impossible with the daringly comical.

As is all great comedies, anything that can go wrong does go wrong – and then some.

 

Cannes 2008 – Attending: John Cairns and Ivo Fiorenza.
c/o The Little Film Company, Lerins R1