Special Screening:
"How to Be" UK 2008- Saturday, November 1st, 9pm
starring Robert Pattinson, Rebecca Pidgeon, Jeremy Hardy; Dir: Oliver Irving
Saturday, November 1st, 9pm
Additional screening: Friday, October 31st, 6:30 pm
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A wry comedy about Art, a frustrated musician, undergoing what he sees as a quarter life crisis. This is not helped when his girlfriend dumps him and he has to move back in with his middle class parents, who are far from thrilled with the idea. Art's only friend, agoraphobic Ronny, has his own problems. Holed up in a London flat in a daze of nitrous oxide and electro music, Ronny wants to start a band with Art and happy-go-lucky friend Nikki, but only if it involves going no further afield than the flat's roof garden. Art discovers self-help guru, Dr Levi Ellington, author of 'It's Not Your Fault'.
Using inheritance money, Art pays for Dr Ellington to move in with him and his parents becoming Art's full-time life coach, shadowing him wherever he goes. Art's painfully funny journey to define his existence brings to the fore the dysfunctional relationship he has with his parents and the importance in his life of his oddball friends.
Rich in detail and dark yet affectionate humour, How To Be is a timely look at the increasingly common phenomena of grown-up children living at home, frustrated creativity and self-help. How To Be stars Robert Pattinson (Edward Cullen in the forthcoming Twilight Films and Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire) and Rebecca Pidgeon (State and Main, The Heist, Redbelt).
Forms: Narrative Fiction, Feature
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Coming of Age , Cult, Independent, Satire, Dramedy
cast & crew
Production
Justin Kelly (Producer), Oliver Irving (Director (1st Project,1st Feature), Coproducer)
Writing
Oliver Irving (Writer)
Performance
Jeremy Hardy (Supporting Actor), Powell Jones (Supporting Actor), Rebecca Pidgeon (Supporting Actor), Robert Pattinson (Lead Actor)
Camera
Paul Swann (Cinematographer/DP (1st Feature))
Post Production
Reuben Irving (Picture Editor), Vanesa Lorena Tate (Sound Editor)
Representation
Michael Williams (Publicist)