PREVIEW: A Few Best Men

Closing September's programme at The Cinema at Gloucester Guildhall is British-Australian comedy A Few Best Men from writer-producer Dean Craig of Death At A Funeral fame, and director Stephan Elliot, best known for the flamboyant smash hit The Adventures Of Priscilla: Queen Of The Desert.

The film opens with David (Xavier Samuel) and Mia (Laura Brent) meeting and falling in love whilst on holiday in Australia. After just a week, David proposes to Mia with them set to be married in just a matter of days. Travelling back to England to round up his three (very surprised) best friends: sensible Tom (Kris Marshall), naive Graham (Kevin Bishop) and recently-dumped and depressed Luke (Tim Draxl) the groom and his best men trek to the other side of the world for the wedding. But Mia's parents, Barbara (Olivia Newton John) and Jim (Jonathan Biggins) are somewhat sceptical of the sudden elopement and when Jim's prized sheep gets involved, all hell breaks loose.

Premiering at California's Mill Valley Film Festival in 2011 and featuring a soundtrack primarily sung by a rarely seen Olivia Newton-John, this has been dubbed by many as the Brit-Australian answer to The Hangover. It certainly boasts as many ludicrous scenarios as its American counterpart along with equal amounts of hilarity and tongue-in-cheek humour.

"Raucous, energetic and enlivened by a game Olivia Newton-John"

Henry Fitzherbert- Daily Express

"Charming and hilarious"

Phelim O'Neill- The Guardian

Check out the trailer below:

A Few Best Men (15) is showing on Friday 28th September at 7.45pm, Monday 1st October at 2.00pm (Screen Tea) and 7.45pm and Tuesday at 7.45pm