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Fri 05 May 2009Irish famine comedy to premiere in Edinburgh
Wide Open Spaces, an Irish comedy starring Ardal O’Hanlon and Ewan Bremner as slackers working on a Famine theme park, will have its world premiere at next month’s Edinburgh Film Festival. Shot on Kildare locations, the movie was written by Arthur Matthews ( Father Ted) and directed by Tom Hall (Bachelors Walk).
Edinburgh opens on June 17th with Away We Go, the first screen comedy directed by Sam Mendes. Scripted by Vendela Vida and Dave Eggers, it stars John Krasinski and Maya Rudolph as a couple dithering about where to have their first baby. The closing film on June 28th is Max Meyer’s romantic comedy Adam, in which the title character (played by Hugh Dancy) has Asperger’s Syndrome.
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