THE BRIGHT SIDE
by Ruth Meehan
synopsis
World-weary stand-up comedian Kate McLoughlin wants out. Her morbid prayers are answered in the form of a cancer diagnosis. For Kate, this is the perfect excuse. However, a last supper of dodgy shellfish and champagne puts paid to her overdose attempt and to placate her family she begrudgingly agrees to undergo treatment. Armed with staggering levels of cynicism and a plethora of blackly comic jokes, Kate gets off to a bad start with the four other women she encounters on the chemo ward, whose unsolictited friendships are destined to blow open her shut-down heart.
international title: | The Bright Side |
original title: | The Bright Side |
country: | Ireland |
year: | 2020 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Ruth Meehan |
film run: | 100' |
screenplay: | Jean Pasley, Ruth Meehan |
cast: | Gemma-Leah Devereux, Siobhan Cullen, Karen Egan, Barbara Brennan, Derbhle Crotty, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor |
cinematography by: | JJ Rolfe |
film editing: | Colin Campbell |
art director: | Mark Kelly |
music: | Stephen Rennicks |
producer: | Tony Deegan |
production: | Playground Pictures |
backing: | Screen Ireland (IE), BAI (IE), RTÉ (IE) |