TO OLIVIA MOVIE TRAILER
STARRING HUGH BONNEVILLE AND KEELEY HAWES
Sky has released the trailer for their movie biopic which will air on
Sky Cinema and also in theatres this February
TO OLIVIA (formerly known as
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To Olivia is based on a tragic true story
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An Unquiet Life) based on a true story and starring
Hugh Bonneville asRoald Dahl and
Keeley Hawes as his wife, famous Hollywood actress and
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The movie will air on Sky Cinema this February
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Oscar winner Patricia Neal. Inspiring and heart-warming,
TO OLIVIA features an all British cast which also includes
Sam Heughan (as Paul
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John Hay directed and co/wrote the film for Sky
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Newman),
Geoffrey Palmer and
Conleth Hill, with
John Hay (Lost Christmas, There’s Only One Jimmy Grimble) as the director. Check out the trailer below the post.
HEARTACHE OF FAMILY TRAGEDY
It’s 1962 and Roald Dahl, an eccentric, burgeoning children’s author and his wife, Patricia Neal, a glamourous Hollywood movie star, have retreated to
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| Keeley Hawes plays Patricia Neal who had affairs with Ronald Reagan and Gary Cooper whose daughter even spat on her once publicly for it. She even aborted a child with him. |
the English countryside to bring up their expanding young family. Tragically, their lives are turned upside down by the devastating death of their daughter Olivia (whom they lost to measles when she was seven just a week after she
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| Hugh Bonneville plays Roald, the author of Fantastic Mr. Fox, James And The Giant Peach, Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Matilda and The Big Friendly Giant |
contracted the disease) and as the couple struggle through the unimaginable loss, their shared grief becomes a source of redemption and strength which changes their lives forever.
Life Filled With Tragedies His books enchanted many generations of children, but Dahl's private life was one punctuated by tragedy after his and Patricia's daughter Olivia died at the age of seven in 1962. Six years after that he will dedicate
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| Keeley speaks American in the film playing the American star Patricia who admitted that she never actually loved Dahl whom she divorced in 1983, a few years before his death |
Fox to Olivia. Back in New York, they also survived a horrific accident in which their four-month-old son Theo was struck by a taxi, while in his pram,
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The movie will also play in available cinemas in February
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sustaining brain damages. When Patricia was pregnant with their fifth child, Lucy, she suffered a stroke which left her partially paralysed and blind and unable to speak. Dahl then imposed a grueling recovery regime on his wife
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This was Geoffrey Palmer's last film before he died
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that has since largely been adopted as the standard therapy for all stroke victims. To surprise of everyone, she returned to work later on and won another Oscar nomination.
