The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society (2018)
Directed by Mike Newell
Free-spirited writer Juliet Ashton forms a life-changing bond with the delightful and eccentric Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, when she decides to write about the book club they formed during the occupation of Guernsey in WWII.
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But that’s not the movie Mike Newell (“Four Weddings and a Funeral,” “Enchanted April”) got out of this British novel.
Helmed by Four Weddings and a Funeral director Mike Newell, the film—which we’ll just call Guernsey, for brevity’s sake—wasn’t necessarily created with the streaming service in mind, seeing as it was given a more traditional theatrical run in the U.K. and elsewhere.
Director Mike Newell, who twice made international audiences fall for kind-hearted Brits with his 1994 romantic comedy Four Weddings and a Funeral and his 2005 entry into the Harry Potter film series Goblet of Fire, stitches together the past and the present, maintains the structural integrity of the double-layered plot, and weaves through emotional epiphanies with ease.
Mike Newell made his name with a story of lovable English eccentrics in Four Weddings and a Funeral , and his latest mines a familiar seam of hot-toddy Britannia.
The Danes have turned the concept of curated hominess and warm socks into a sort of lifestyle cottage industry over the last few years, and now director Mike Newell ( Four Weddings and a Funeral , Mona Lisa Smile ) has manifested it in a movie — the kind you don’t so much watch as wear like a slanket.
Mike Newell's ( Four Weddings and a Funeral , An Awfully Big Adventure ) movie, written by a trio whose combined credits include A Royal Night Out , The Family Stone and Marley & Me , is filled with oddball characters, inspirational defiance and cross-cultural love.
James, fresh off facing off against Gary Oldman as Winston Churchill in “Darkest Hour” and playing a young Meryl Streep in “Mamma Mia!