Director
John McKay
Composer
Kevin Sargent
Cast
Andie MacDowell, Imelda Staunton, Anna Chancellor, Kenny Doughty, Bill Paterson
Edition 2001
111'
-
2001
-
Drama, Comedy, Romance
-
Dialogue:
French, English
Forty-year-old Kate is a headmistress of a local school in a small English town: she is successful and respectable, and on her own. Every Monday, she gets together with her other single successful friends, Molly and Janine, for the ‘Sad Fuckers Club’, where they drink gin, eat chocolate and decide who is the ‘Saddest of the Week’. Then Kate meets Jed, twenty-five years old and an ex-pupil. And spontaneously has sex with him. What can she tell her friends? And worse, what will Molly and Janine do when Kate starts to fall in love with this unsuitable young man, and is no longer sad at all? On discovery of the affair, Molly and Janine are incensed and begin a campaign of resistance. But every blow they strike against him seems to drive Kate and Jed closer together; until finally, when the lovers announce their plan to marry, Molly is found by Kate in a comprising situation with Jed, and disaster strikes … (press kit)
Image gallery
![477983fe ed7d 46a8 944f 3f6574dc5eeb](https://filmfest.imgix.net/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.filmfestival.be%2Fvolumes%2Fgeneral%2F477983fe-ed7d-46a8-944f-3f6574dc5eeb.jpg%3Fv%3D1713341712?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=clip&q=80&w=600&s=78814a3d6120b93f4602dcc94ac4bc68)
![63b6abac 9eee 475f 83ba fdb14abd2e32](https://filmfest.imgix.net/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.filmfestival.be%2Fvolumes%2Fgeneral%2F63b6abac-9eee-475f-83ba-fdb14abd2e32.jpg%3Fv%3D1713341712?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=clip&q=80&w=600&s=0fe1496912378f930b0c154d67deea29)
![5f867e3a 556d 428e ae73 55cef46f4f92](https://filmfest.imgix.net/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.filmfestival.be%2Fvolumes%2Fgeneral%2F5f867e3a-556d-428e-ae73-55cef46f4f92.jpg%3Fv%3D1713341713?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=clip&q=80&w=600&s=4813f89a225efff33ddfc89ffcb6ed71)
![3d07ba1f 9b20 465e a5b4 08f91fff8196](https://filmfest.imgix.net/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.filmfestival.be%2Fvolumes%2Fgeneral%2F3d07ba1f-9b20-465e-a5b4-08f91fff8196.bmp%3Fv%3D1713341713?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=clip&q=80&w=600&s=9b34b9f7faf2c58e39b8b11b8838880a)
![Bacfb50c 5e06 410b 8caa a3b65fdfb3ab](https://filmfest.imgix.net/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.filmfestival.be%2Fvolumes%2Fgeneral%2Fbacfb50c-5e06-410b-8caa-a3b65fdfb3ab.jpg%3Fv%3D1713341713?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=clip&q=80&w=600&s=a5774885fb6db012c7a0e5a4fced0f2a)
Credits
Directors
John McKay
Composers
Kevin Sargent
Cast
Andie MacDowell, Imelda Staunton, Anna Chancellor, Kenny Doughty, Bill Paterson
Scenario
John McKay
Director of Photography
Henry Braham
Editors
Anne Sopel
Producers
Lee Thomas
More info
Dialogue
French, English
Countries of production
United Kingdom
Year
2001