Everybody's Talking About Jamie (2021)

Directed by

Jonathan Butterell

Genre

drama film, musical film, comedy drama, LGBTQ-related film

Country

United Kingdom, United States

Runtime

1h 55m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 148 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A 16 year old British schoolboy dreams of becoming a drag queen. He faces bullying and prejudice but finds support from his mother and friends. The film follows his journey to a school talent show.

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What happens

Everybody's Talking About Jamie is a 2021 coming-of-age musical comedy drama film directed by Jonathan Butterell (in his feature directorial debut) from a screenplay by Tom MacRae based on the stage musical of the same name, which in turn was adapted from the BBC Three documentary Jamie: Drag Queen at 16 by Jenny Popplewell. The film stars newcomer Max Harwood with Sarah Lancashire, Lauren Patel, Shobna Gulati, Ralph Ineson, Adeel Akhtar, Samuel Bottomley, Sharon Horgan, and Richard E. Grant. The story follows and is based upon the true-life story of 16-year-old British schoolboy Jamie Campbell, as he overcomes prejudice and bullying, to step out of the darkness and become a drag queen. Following delays of a planned theatrical release by 20th Century Studios, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Everybody's Talking About Jamie was released in select theatres in the United States on 10 September 2021, followed by a worldwide streaming release on 17 September 2021 via Amazon Studios on Amazon Prime Video. The film has received positive reviews and was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Outstanding British Film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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