How About You...

How About You... (2007)

A young woman, struggling with the direction of her life, spends Christmas watching over a retirement home filled with demanding residents.

Date of release
2007-11-16
TMDB
6.3 / 10 (36)
Runtime
1h 40m
Genres
Comedy, Drama
Director
Anthony Byrne

Casting

Interesting facts

How About You is a 2007 Irish film directed by Anthony Byrne. The film is based on a short story sometimes published as "How About You" and sometimes published as "The Hard Core" in This Year It Will Be Different, a 1996 collection of short stories by Maeve Binchy. It tells the story of a young woman named Ellie who is left in charge of the residential home run by her older sister, during Christmas period. Most of the residents have gone with their families during the holidays, but four residents, known as the hardcore, remain. Their behaviour will cause much trouble and will lead to the residence facing closure.

Production notes

Filming took place between October and December 2006. The film is dedicated to Joan O'Hara who died in July 2007, four months before its November release.

The film that Georgia is watching in her room is Witness for the Prosecution, a film adaptation of Agatha Christie's novel. Vanessa Redgrave, who plays Georgia, is in another Christie adaptation, Murder on the Orient Express and plays Christie herself in Agatha.

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