Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie

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Based on the television show of the same name, Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie is a British comedy directed by Mandie Fletcher. The film opened in the United Kingdom on July 1 and has made $17.9M so far, good for 11th place on the yearly box office chart. The film stars Jennifer Saunders, Joanna Lumley, Julia Sawalha, Jane Horrocks, June Whitfield, Kathy Burke, Celia Imrie, and Chris Colfer.

Appropriate for their big screen debut, Edina Monsoon and Patsy Stone (Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley) are still oozing glitz and glamour, living the high life they are accustomed to; shopping, drinking and clubbing their way around London’s trendiest hotspots.  But when they accidentally push Kate Moss into the river Thames at an uber fashionable launch party, Eddy and Patsy become entangled in a media storm surrounding the supermodel’s untimely demise and are relentlessly pursued by the paparazzi. Fleeing penniless to the glamorous playground of the super-rich, the French Riviera, they hatch a plan to make their escape permanent and live the high life forever more!

Saunders, who also wrote the film, needed a push to get the film made. “You keep meeting people and they keep enjoying it, but it was Joanna Lumley who finally forced me into it. She put it very simply, and very brilliantly. She simply said ‘You must write it, darling. Otherwise we will all be dead and we won’t have made the film.’ And I love hanging out with Joanna, and I love being with the other cast members, and I knew that we could have a lot of fun.”

Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie is rated 14A.