Adult Life Skills — Trailer

source:   theguardian.com

added: Mon, Apr 18th '16

Jodie Whittaker is having a kind of early midlife crisis in the new trailer for the offbeat British comedy "Adult Life Skills."

Whittaker, whom you may have seen in the cult alien invasion flick "Attack the Block" or the acclaimed crime series "Broadchurch," plays a 29-year-old recluse named Anna. After converting her mother's garden shed into her own personal workspace, Anna spends most of her time making private video movies using her thumbs as puppets. With her 30th birthday looming, Anna finds herself further without direction and lacking the skills to face the responsibilities of adulthood. Meanwhile, Anna's concerned friends and family are trying to make sense of her life choices.

Co-starring Lorraine Ashbourne, Eileen Davies, Alice Lowe, David Anderson, Rachael Deering, and Brett Goldstein, the upcoming comedy is written and directed by first-time feature filmmaker Rachel Tunnard, based on her 2014 BAFTA-nominated short film, "Emotional Fusebox," which also starred Whittaker.

"Adult Life Skills" will be making its world premiere this week at the Tribeca Film Festival. It's slated to open in the U.K. in June.

synopsis:
Anna is stuck: she's approaching 30, living like a hermit in her mum's garden shed and wondering why the suffragettes ever bothered. She spends her days making videos using her thumbs as actors -- thumbs that bicker about things like whether Yogi Bear is a moral or existential nihilist. But Anna doesn’t show these videos to anyone and no one knows what they are for. A week before her birthday her Mum serves her an ultimatum -- she needs to move out of the shed, get a haircut that doesn’t put her gender in question and stop dressing like a homeless teenager. Naturally, Anna tells her Mum to BACK THE F-OFF. However, when her school friend comes to visit, Anna's self-imposed isolation becomes impossible to maintain. Soon she is entangled with a troubled eight-year-old boy obsessed with Westerns, and the local estate agent whose awkward interpersonal skills continually undermine his attempts to seduce her.

 

directed by   Rachel Tunnard

starring   Jodie Whittaker, Brett Goldstein, Lorraine Ashbourne, Eileen Davies, Alice Lowe, David Anderson, Rachael Deering

release date   June 24, 2016 (UK)