ADULT LIFE SKILLS
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. This is a story about confronting the things we are most scared of – a story that explores the universal themes of being lost and finding yourself, making peace with who you are, and regaining self-confidence and dignity. It is basically the same themes as ROCKY if you think about it. But with thumbs. And a cowboy. And no boxing.
international title: | Adult Life Skills |
original title: | Adult Life Skills |
country: | United Kingdom |
sales agent: | Independent Film Company |
year: | 2016 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Rachel Tunnard |
film run: | 96' |
release date: | UK 24/06/2016 |
screenplay: | Rachel Tunnard |
cast: | Jodie Whittaker, Lorraine Ashbourne, Eileen Davies, Alice Lowe, Edward Hogg, Andrew Buckley, Brett Goldstein, Rachael Deering, Christian Contreras |
cinematography by: | Bet Rourich |
film editing: | Rachel Tunnard |
art director: | Beck Rainford |
costumes designer: | Rebecca Gore |
producer: | Michael Berliner |
co-producer: | Sean Wheelan |
production: | Filmgate, Pico Pictures |
distributor: | NonStop Entertainment |