Ethel & Ernest (film)
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| Directed by | Roger Mainwood |
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| Screenplay by | Roger Mainwood |
| Based on | Ethel & Ernest by Raymond Briggs |
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| Music by | Carl Davis |
| Edited by | Richard Overall |
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| Distributed by | BBC Universal Pictures Vertigo Releasing |
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| Country | United Kingdom Luxembourg |
| Language | English |
Ethel & Ernest is a 2016 British animated biographical film directed by Roger Mainwood. The film is based on the 1998 graphic memoir of the same name written by Raymond Briggs, and follows Briggs' parents, Ethel and Ernest, through their period of marriage from the 1920s to their deaths in the 1970s. It was broadcast on television on BBC One on 28 December 2016.[2]
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Plot
The film details the marriage of Ethel and Ernest Briggs from the 1920s to the 1970s, as they live through extraordinary events occurring in that period.
Cast
- Jim Broadbent as Ernest Briggs[3]
- Brenda Blethyn as Ethel Briggs[3]
- Luke Treadaway as Raymond Briggs[3]
- Harry Collett as young Raymond Briggs[3]
- Roger Allam as Doctor Trotter[3]
- Pam Ferris as Mrs. Bennett and Aunt Betty[3]
- Virginia McKenna as Lady Foxworthy[3]
- Peter Wight as Detective Sergeant Burnley[3]
- June Brown as Ernest's Stepmother[3]
- Simon Day as Alf[3]
Production
The film was originally to be produced by John Coates, notable for producing The Snowman. When Coates died in 2012, Camilla Deakin and Ruth Fielding (Lupus Films) were then hired to help complete the film.[4] The voice cast for the film was revealed on 3 August 2015.[5] The film was made of 67,680 hand-drawn individual frames.[6]
The film's soundtrack has a score by Carl Davis, but also uses songs of the period featured relevant to scenes of the film by Bert Lown, Al Bowlly, Ambrose and his Orchestra, Joe Daniels and his Hotshots, Florence Desmond, Jack Hylton, Gracie Fields, Charles Penrose, Juliette Greco, The Shadows and Dave Berry, and closes with an original song "In The Blink Of An Eye" written and performed by Paul McCartney.[7]
Release
The film made its official debut in the 60th BFI London Film Festival. The film made its theatrical premiere in the U.S. at the Nuart Landmark Theatre in Santa Monica, California, on 15 December 2017.[6]
Reception
Critical response
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- Ethel & Ernest at Rotten Tomatoes
- Ethel & Ernest (film) at Discogs
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