The Drummond Will

The Drummond Will
The Drummond Will
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Directed by
Written by	;
Produced by
Starring	Philip James;
Cinematography
Edited by
Music by
Production; company
Distributed by
Release date	5 August 2010 (Woods Hole);
Running time	81 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

The Drummond Will is a 2011 British comedy film directed by , starring Philip James and , and written by Butterworth and . The film is a fusion of the theatrical style found in classic Ealing Comedies with modern British humour.

Plot[]

Following the death of their father, two sons inherit a decrepit cottage in a small British village in the middle of nowhere. They soon find the building also contains a large sum of unexpected cash, and through a combination of bad luck and very poor judgment they soon find themselves having to deal with an increasing body count of elderly villagers while attempting to avoid suspicion.

Cast[]

Philip James as Danny Drummond
as Marcus Drummond
as Solicitor
Jonathan Hansler as Constable
as Betty
as Vicar
as Colonel
as Rufus Drummond
as Malcolm the Bastard

Critical response[]

Critical reaction at film festivals was positive - it debuted at the Woods Hole Film Festival where it won the Best Film (Comedy) award,^[1] and later won various other festival awards including the Best International Feature award at the Big Island Film Festival.^[2] Dennis Harvey, reviewing the film for Variety, called it "an agreeable Ealing-meets-Farrelly feel on modest means" that will "amuse casual viewers and delight genre fans".^[3] George Haymont of the Huffington Post called it "one of the most refreshingly inventive and lovingly crafted send-ups of a beloved genre to be seen in many a moon" and is "the blackest of comedies and a joyful romp rolled into one very pleasing package".^[4]

Home media[]

The film was released theatrically in the US in July 2011, with a DVD and Blu-ray release in August 2011 in the UK.^[5]

References[]

External links[]

[1] Woods Hole Film Festival

[2] Big Island Film Festival

[3] Variety review

[4] Huffington Post review

[5] Amazon.co.uk release date

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