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A young British woman struggling with the direction of her life spends Christmas watching over a retirement home filled with demanding residents.A young British woman struggling with the direction of her life spends Christmas watching over a retirement home filled with demanding residents.A young British woman struggling with the direction of her life spends Christmas watching over a retirement home filled with demanding residents.
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- TriviaAlthough they play sisters of presumably a similar age to each other, Orla Brady is twenty-one years older than Hayley Atwell.
- Quotes
[first lines]
Donald Vanston: Damned cars on the lawn. Shit.
Heather Nightingale: That's it!
Hazel Nightingale: I don't want to go.
Heather Nightingale: They're trying to get rid of us before they arrived.
- ConnectionsFeatures Hobson's Choice (1954)
- SoundtracksHow About You
Written by Burton Lane and Ralph Freed
Performed by Bobby Darin
Courtesy of Warner Music UK Ltd
Also Performed by Vanessa Redgrave
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A Bloody Fine Irish Comedy, This Is...
'How About You' is one of those "feel good" films from Ireland (just to let everybody know that we're not just a bunch of gloomy,depressed sods that like a good cry). Anthony Byrne directs a crackerjack cast of seasoned veterans,including Vanessa Redgrave as an over the hill actress (or so she claims),Joss Ackland as a retired judge who's chronic alcoholism brought his career crashing down early,and a cast of other fine actors & actresses playing the residents of a nursing home in the beautiful Irish countryside (filmed mostly in County Wicklow). The story concerns a young woman,who arrives at her older sister's nursing home in need of a place to live & work. As she arrives around Christmas time,most of the residents have already gone home to family, except for a scant handful miserable,cranky residents,who are nick named by the staff as "the hard core". Hayley Atwell shines as Ellie, the obviously pretty,young face,among the resident batch of sour balls, who refuses to put up with their b.s. This film reminded me a lot of the British comedy,'Experience Preferred,But Not Necessary' (which was also about a young lass who goes to work for a Summer holiday resort in the English seaside coast). If you like a light,refreshing,breezy comedy that will make you smile as you exit,then 'How About You',from 2007 may just be your cup of tea. Not rated,but contains profanity & drug humour.
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Box office
- Budget
- $9,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $78,234
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $6,022
- Nov 16, 2008
- Gross worldwide
- $802,321
- Runtime1 hour 27 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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