Review Guernsey (2018)

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Guernsey
Director: Mike Newell (“Donnie Brasco,” “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”)
Cast: Matthew Goode, Lily James, Jessica Brown Findlay, Michiel Huisman
Details: “Four Weddings and a Funeral” director Mike Newell helms this British historical drama adaptation of Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows’ novel “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society” which couldn’t sound more English if it tried. Newell took over the project after the originally attached Kenneth Branagh dropped out.

This subsequent incarnation sounds less high profile but retains the story of a writer who forms an unexpected bond with the residents of Guernsey in the Channel Islands in the aftermath of World War II when she decides to write a book about their wartime experiences. The film is set to get a big launch in the UK just after Easter.

 

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The trailer for Mike Newell’s historical drama “Guernsey” (aka. “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society”) starring Lily James, Glen Powell, Matthew Goode, Jessica Brown Findlay, Katherine Parkinson, Tom Courtenay, and Penelope Wilton.

This adaptation of the best-seller by Annie Barrows and Mary Ann Shaffer’s follows a young woman who decides to write about a book club that formed during the dark days of WWII, and uncovers more secrets than she was expecting.