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Critics rate it 20 points higher than audiences do.
Synopsis
'Festival' is a black comedy set during the annual Edinburgh Fringe festival. The film is based around both the judging of a major comedy award and the performers at one of the smaller venues. Various plot strands interweave, including the bitter relationship between a famous self-obsessed British comic and his ever-suffering assistant, an actress debuting at the festival with a one-woman show about Dorothy Wordsworth and a depressed, rich housewife who spies on the stoned Canadian theatre troupe to whom she has rented out her house
Ratings
IMDb6/10
Rotten Tomatoes80%
Critics rate it 20 points higher than audiences do.
14 audience votes
Key crew
- Annie GriffinDirector
- Jim SutherlandOriginal Music Composer
- Annie GriffinWriter
Cast
- Lyndsey MarshalFaith Myers
- Chris O'DowdTommy O'Dwyer
- Daniela NardiniJoan Gerard
- Stephen ManganSean Sullivan
- Lucy PunchNicky Romanowski
- Raquel CassidyPetra Loewenberg
- Clive RussellBrother Mike
- Amelia BullmoreMicheline Menzies
- Megan DoddsDina
- Meredith MacNeillMary
- Jonah LotanRick
- Richard AyoadeDwight Swan
Stills
Themes
scotlandedinburgh, scotlandcomedian