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HAPPY NEW YEAR, COLIN BURSTEAD

By Ben WHEATHLEY

Family - Completed 2018

Colin hires a lavish country manor for his extended family to celebrate New Year. Unfortunately for Colin his position of power in the family is under serious threat from the arrival of his estranged brother David.

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BFI London FF 2018

Stockholm IFF 2018

FNC - Montréal 2018

- Year of production
- 2018
- Genres
- Family, Drama, Comedy
- Countries
- UNITED KINGDOM
- Duration
- 95 mn
- Director(s)
- Ben WHEATHLEY
- Cast
- Sam RILEY, Neil MASKELL, Hayley SQUIRES, Sura DOHNKE
- Producer(s)
- Andy STARKE
- Synopsis
- Colin Burstead has hired a heritage mansion for a New Year's Eve party for his extended family and various hangers-on, with his own wife Val, teenage daughter Fran and infant son Jamie in tow. Colin's mother Sandy -the family's matriarch -dramatically injures her ankle before she has even crossed the manor house's threshold. Her indebted husband Gordon is desperately trying to secure a life-saving loan that Colin simply will not grant him. Uncle Bertie is secretly ill, and knows this might be his last time seeing the clan all together. Meanwhile, self-deceiving Sham, the son of Sandy's best friends Maya and Nikhil, has gatecrashed the party in the hope of winning back his ex-girlfriend Lainey, who is doing the catering.
  All these little tensions and dramas are overshadowed by the return of Colin's black sheep brother David to the family fold after an absence of five years, along with his German girlfriend Hannah. Invited by Colin's sister Gini against the advice of her husband Warren, as a surprise for Sandy, David immediately finds himself less than welcome, and not just to his ex-wife Paula -but over the course of the evening, his presence will shift the family's power dynamics.

HAPPY NEW YEAR, COLIN BURSTEAD

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