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An Unquiet Life

Synopsis

The bittersweet, comedic and heart-warming story of Academy Award winning actress Patricia Neal’s marriage to best-selling children’s novelist Roald Dahl.
Set between New York, England and Los Angeles at the beginning of the 1960s, focusing on Dahl's struggles to write some of his most famous works and Neal’s return to acting with 'Hud', for which she finally won an Oscar.

Details

Year: 2020
Type of film: Features
Director: John Hay
Producer: Donall McCusker, Adrian Politowski, Nick Quested
Executive Producer: David Kennedy, Adrian Politowski
Screenwriter: John Hay (screenplay), David Logan (screenplay), Stephen Michael Shearer (biography)
Director of Photography: Graham Frake
Principal cast: Hugh Bonneville, Keeley Hawes, Sam Heughan, Michael Gibson
Film Title Note: FKA Untitled Roald Dahl and Patricia Neal project

Genre

Drama

Production Status

Post-production

Production Company

Canada, UK co-production

An Align (US), Atticus Pictures (CA, UK) and Goldcrest Features(CA) production

Atticus Pictures

atticuspictures@gmail.com

Sales Company

Saboteur Media

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The story of the tribulations behind best-selling children's novelist Roald Dahl's marriage to Academy Award winning actress Patricia Neal. The somewhat unlikely pair - an in-demand Hollywood actress and a burgeoning children's author - find their relationship put to the test, and ultimately strengthened, by tragic events. Set between New York, England and Los Angeles in the early 60s, it tells the tale of Dahl's struggles while writing some of his most famous works and Neal's return to acting.