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Tuesday, November 6, 2007

Byrne, Baby, Byrne

We’ve never apologised for poor wordplay here at TToH, and we’re not going to start now (previous suggestions of a heading were Byrne To Be Wild and Byrned Alive). Anthony Byrne’s fantastic Short Order – starring Emma De Caunes, John Hurt, Vanessa Redgrave, Jack Dee, Paul Kaye and John Polito – was released in 2005, and Anthony (left) has turned his attention to Maeve Binchy’s short story How About You, produced by Ferndale Films (My Left Foot, The Field, Dancing At Lughnasa).

So, what's the pitch?
In the run up to Christmas, Ellie (Hayley Atwell - Mansfield Park) is left in charge of a residential home run by her older sister. Most of the elderly residents have gone home for the holidays but four of the crankiest inmates remain to create havoc and destroy Ellie's yuletide cheer. Brenda Fricker, Orla Brady, Joan O'Hara and Vanessa Redgrave co-star.

Does hope lie in the proles?
Maeve hasn’t had the best of luck in adaptations (Tara Road and Circle Of Friends didn’t boil our potatoes), but TToH trusts Anthony (above) to pull out the stops. Again, we wouldn’t trust our word for it so we’ll point you in the direction of Short Order’s snazzy trailer and then why not check out How About You? TToH will have the release date the second we find out...... It wasn't last week was it?

2 comments:

Declan Burke said...

The site looks cracking, sir ... kudos. Where are you digging all the info from? One thing ... that photograph scares me. Scaaaaaares me ...

Lrakyawnoc said...

"We’ve never apologised for poor wordplay here at TToH" in all your 5 day history! Looks good though Gav - like the messing around with the templates that you did. keep it up - and every day!