During a long, hot summer in seventies London, young neighbors Holly and Marina make a childhood pact to be friends forever. For Marina, troubled, fiercely independent, determined to try everything, Holly stays the only constant in a life of divorcing parents, experimental drugs and fashionable self-destruction. But for Holly, a friendship that has never been equal gradually starts to feel like a trap.
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Anna Friel
Marina
Michelle Williams
Holly
Oliver Milburn
Nat
Trudie Styler
Linda
Marianne Denicourt
Isabel
Steve John Shepherd
Carl
Allan Corduner
Max
Nicky Henson
Ray
Kyle MacLachlan
Daniel
Deborah Findlay
Judith
Director
Sandra Goldbacher
Screenplay
Sandra Goldbacher
Tagline
"...best friends forever?"
Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Production
Momentum Pictures, Fireworks Pictures, Road Movies, Wave Pictures, British Screen, MEDIA Programme of the European Union, Dakota Films, Isle of Man Film Commission, BSB, Capitol Films
CinemaSerf
June 4, 2024
This is one of those films that is so riddled with stupid personal choices from the characters that I lost interest fairly quickly. We start in the early 1970s as "Marina" (Anna's Poppelwell then Friel) and best friend "Holly" (Ella Jones then Michelle Williams) grow up together. The former girl has an absentee (pilot) father and a mother who is great fun - so long as she can pop a valium or two. ...
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