Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie (2016)

Directed by

Mandie Fletcher

Genre

comedy film, LGBTQ-related film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 31m

Rated

R

Rating

5.3 of 10 from 267 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An aging PR agent and her best friend go on the run after a famous model dies in a bizarre accident. The pair bicker and blunder their way through Europe while dodging the police.

freneticcampysillychaoticself-indulgentfast-pacedabsurdistnostalgicirreverent

What happens

Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie is a 2016 comedy film directed by Mandie Fletcher, written by Jennifer Saunders and based on the television series Absolutely Fabulous. It stars Saunders, Joanna Lumley, Julia Sawalha, June Whitfield (in her final acting role) and Jane Horrocks, reprising their roles from the series. The film finds the drug-addicted, alcoholic PR agent Edina Monsoon and her best friend/codependent Patsy Stone on the run from the authorities after it is suspected they killed supermodel Kate Moss. The film serves as a de facto series finale for the show. Principal photography began on 12 October 2015 in London, with additional filming in the South of France. The film premiered in London on 29 June 2016 and was released theatrically in the United Kingdom on 1 July 2016 by 20th Century Fox and in the United States on 22 July 2016 by Fox Searchlight Pictures. In addition to being the final role for Whitfield, it also marked the final film role for Barry Humphries before his death in April 2023. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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