Spoiler Fantastic

This week on our podcast, My Bleeding Ears (listen to us on Sound Cloud and Google Play!), I discussed Captain Fantastic.  This one is for you, Mom.  

The movie opens on a deer in the woods.  We see little faces covered in camo/mud stalking said deer.  A teenage boy leaps out of the trees, and slits the deer's throat. Soon five other kids and a man named Ben (Viggo Mortensen) emerge from the woods.  Ben places his hands on the teenage boy, Bodevan (George MacKay and not a Culkin like I thought throughout the movie), and says, "Today the boy is dead and in his place is a man."

They wash the mud off in a stream and bring the deer home for dinner, clothing, etc. (they use all the parts like Native Americans, so I'm allowing the animal violence in this one). They head home, which is a cabin in the wilderness where they grow their own crops, can things for winter, and except for the deer murder and lack of TV, I think I'd love it there.  There's even a tree house.  Sure, a kid is up there de-boning a rat, but still.  Tree house!

 The cover of one of the books isn't quite visible,
but you see the words, "middle earth," so HAHA, movie. 
I see what you did.

Ben teaches the kids how to spar, then they light a fire, read books and have intellectual discussions.

Ben gives them homework, and then they begin to play instruments.  They all play a song together with drums, guitar, a harmonica, and a tambourine.  We discover that their mother has been gone for three months and the children ask when she is coming home.  

The next day, Ben is loading up a school bus that he's repurposed into an RV.  The kids' mother, Leslie (Trin Miller) has been in the hospital for reasons we don't know yet.  Ben doesn't believe in hospitals until he has to. So he is a man of science, at least.  Bodevan goes with him on the trip.  They stop at a gas station where Bodevan runs into two teenage girls.  He is rendered speechless.  He goes back to the bus and pulls out several letters of acceptance to college.  He's hiding these from Ben.

Ben uses a phone in a bar to call his sister Harper (Kathryn Hahn) and ask about Leslie.  Leslie slit her wrists last night.  She's dead.  Ben goes home to tell the kids and they react the way kids react when they find out their mother is suddenly dead.  Ben plays a mournful tune on bagpipes.  

We get a workout montage.  Afterwards, the kids ask when their mother's funeral is.  Cut to Ben back on the bar phone.  He's talking to Leslie's father Jack (Frank Langella) about Leslie's will and burial wishes.  Jack freaks out an tells Ben to stay away from the funeral.  He is not invited.  Leslie's mom Abigail (Ann Dowd) is on the phone, too.  She tells Ben it's OK and lets him know where the funeral will be.  

The family piles into the bus to attend the funeral.  On the road, Kielyr (Samantha Isler) is reading Lolita.  Ben orders her to discuss it.  At first, she brings up what it's about, but Ben wants to know what she thinks about it. She says it's f*$%!ed up because a grown man is obsessively in love with a 12 year old girl, but since the story is told from his perspective, she hates him and feels sorry for him at the same time.  (I just hate him.)  Zaja (Shree Crooks) asks what "sexual intercourse" is and Ben tells her flat out. She's icked. 

They marvel at how fat people are in civilization. Then they agree that they shouldn't make fun of anyone, "except Christians."  If you ask me, it depends on the Christian, but I see their point.  

They get pulled over for a broken tail light and the cop wonders why the kids aren't in school.  Bodevan says they are home schooled and proceeds to act like an insane born-again Christian.  The kids follow suit.  This is one of a few examples of how the kids are intelligent enough to be little con artists.  The cop gets scared off.  

Kielyr is aiming an arrow at a flock of sheep, but she can't go through with it because they aren't trying to escape.  (I'm bored. -- My notes)

In the car, Kielyr and Vespyr are speaking in a foreign language.  (They speak several languages.) Ben scolds them, saying they cannot speak a language that not everyone in the bus understands. 

They go to a diner, and the kids are excited to order this food, but Ben is disgusted by the menu, so they go to a grocery store.  And if you're wondering how they plan to pay for said food, so was I.  Well, they don't.  Ben fakes a heart attack.  They make a huge scene, and in the chaos, they make off with the groceries.         

They camp and celebrate Noam Chomsky Day.  Ben hands out gifts and Zaja's gift is "The Joy of Sex," and OK that made me LOL.  Her reaction is priceless. Rellian (Nicholas Hamilton) is angry about the made up holiday because other families celebrate Christmas, or Hanukkah, etc. 

I couldn't find a pic of Zaja receiving "The Joy of Sex" or of Kathryn Hahn and Steve Zahn in this movie,
so you just have to trust that her face was hilarious and those two really are in this movie.  

Now they are at Harper and Dave's (Steve Zahn) house for the night and having dinner.  Dave says he's very sorry for their loss and Ben reveals to us that the last time they were together, Dave called Leslie a "fucking bitch" in an argument about sugar.  I guess what he actually said was, "stop acting like a fucking bitch."  Because that's better.  They continue to discuss Leslie.  She was bipolar, and while Dave and Harper try to shelter their two sons from the conversation, Ben openly discusses the illness.  Harper storms out and Dave follows.  

The kids watch as Dave and Harper's boys play some modern fighting video game, and again, the two little kids' faces make me LOL.  I love these kids.  Harper and Ben argue.  Ben and his kids set up camp outside and Harper is bugged because they had made up the rec room for them.

The next morning, Harper and Ben continue to argue.  Harper says the kids need to be in school and learn about the world.  Ben tests this theory by calling her boys into the kitchen and quizzing them on the Bill of Rights.  They don't have the first clue what that is.  Then he asks his kids and they report out on it in detail.  Point: Ben.

The family leaves in the bus and goes to stay in a campground instead.  Bodevan does yoga and a girl, Clair (Erin Moriarty) approaches him.  He introduces himself and says that all of their names are made up so that they can have unique names.  So that's what it is.  As a Jessalynn, I get it.  I love my name.  Google my full name, I AM THE ONLY ONE.

She's from the first season of Jessica Jones.  It was bugging me, too.

That night they hang out at the pool. Bodevan mentions Dr. Spock and Clair says she loves Star Trek or something.  He pretends to know what she's talking about.  She kisses him, and then starts to take him to a second location so they can get it on, but her mom (Missi Pyle) stops them.  Bodevan declares his intentions by getting down on one knee and proposing, and we're all supposed to believe this is a con, but when the women laugh, it appears that he wasn't joking, and I like this kid.  Have y'all seen this kid before?  I need to check out some other movies of his if there are some.   

No, I'm not putting a dick pic in my blog. Pervs.

The next morning, Ben is standing in the doorway of the bus with a cup of coffee and that is all.  If you missed his penis in Eastern Promises, then here is your chance.  

Back on the road, they pass a golf course on the way to the funeral and I get it, luxury is gross.  Here's our first flashback of Leslie and it's cute and sad.  At the funeral, I squawk in delight at the site of Aunt Lydia, which I know is a weird reaction to have, but I love you, Ann Dowd.  The family is all dressed up in flashy, colorful 70s-looking suits and I check one more time to make sure Wes Anderson had nothing to do with this movie.   

Ben hijacks the eulogy and tells everyone about the real Leslie.  He reads the part of her will where she wants to be cremated, and then have the ashes flushed down a toilet.  And I definitely didn't get on my high horse about how cremation is also a waste of energy and toilets a waste of water.  I mean, if this family is living so clean, they should know better.  Eyeroll.  They get kicked out of the funeral.  (I still don't care. At least A Cure for Wellness entertained me when it lectured me about consumerism. -- My notes)

Leslie's parents go outside and meet the two youngest kids for the first time.  Ben fights with Jack and then they separate.  Ben proclaims to the kids that he is going to "rescue" their mom and all the kids think he's crazy and want him to stop.  Finally, Bodevan says, "PLEASE STOP.  WE CAN'T LOSE YOU, TOO," and, freaking DUH, BEN, GET IT TOGETHER I THOUGHT YOU WERE SMART.  They go back to the campground.  

Bodevan and Rellian are on the basketball court.  Rellian is full of rage.  He says their dad made their mom crazy and that he's dangerous.  Rellian storms off.  

You see the Culkin thing, too, right?

Back at the bus, Ben is polishing off a bottle of wine.  Bodevan shows him his college acceptance letters and Ben is sarcastic and drunk and a total dick about it.  This movie is REALLY lucky it got someone like Viggo Mortensen to play Ben because that's the only thing keeping me from hating this dude.  Bodevan admits that his mom was helping him apply.  "I am a FREAK because of YOU.  MOM KNEW THAT."  I love this decidedly NOT a Culkin kid!

Aw the bus's name is Steve.  Is it after Steve Zahn?  I hope so.  We should name more things after him.  Where is he?  I miss him.  

They drive to Leslie's parents and Rellian is there playing turkey shoot or something. He screams that Ben killed mom. He claims that he heard that his mom say she wanted to leave.  Rellian wants to live with grandma and grandpa now.  "I hate you. I fucking hate you." *Storms off*

Jack shoots an arrow at Ben. He's pissed that Ben lied about the kids being in school. That they use real weapons, and are covered in scratches and bruises (plus Rellian broke his hand rock climbing earlier in the movie). He calls it child abuse. "Even if they make it through whatever it is you're doing, they're going to be totally unprepared for the real world."  Point: Langella.  He says he and Abigail are filing for custody of the children.

Ben actually really takes this all in for the first time.  He agrees to leave the children with their grandparents. Driving the bus home, we get a nice long close-up shot of Ben's face as he finally breaks down.  It's beautiful and sad and I love you, Viggo.  Bring it in here, buddy, it'll be OK.  

The children have stowed away on the bus. Rellian is sorry he was so angry.  He doesn't hate Ben. They GRAVE-ROB BUT I GUESS THAT’S FINE AND NOT A CRIME OF ANY KIND.  Did we all forget what Bodevan said, like 5 minutes ago?

The children open the casket and grieve in the bus as they get one last look and touch of their mother and I want to call my mom even though she's the one who asked me to review this movie in the first place.  Hi, Mom.  

I should note that my mom said I should REVIEW the movie, not that she liked it.
Or that I would. But I bet both our eyes watered here.

They give Mom a Viking funeral. Ben says he’s sorry.  He thought he was helping her, and he’s sorry if he didn’t. They sing a lovely acoustic cover of Sweet Child of Mine, Leslie's favorite song, and FINE I'm not made of bricks and stone, y'all.  Then they go to a public restroom somewhere and flush her ashes down the toilet.

Now we are at the airport.  Bodevan is flying to someplace.  I missed the name.  Anyway, he just pointed to a place on a map.  No college, I guess, so. OK.  

Their good-byes are very sweet.  Ben rests his forehead on Bodevan's for a minute, pulls away and says, "When you have sex with a woman, be gentle, and listen to her.  Always treat her with respect and dignity, even if you don’t love her." Fine FINE, I'm softening a little.  

Cut to Ben and the rest of the kids in an actual house.  Ben is making their bag lunches to take to actual school.  I guess Jack and Abigail were cool with him stealing their daughter's body, burning it up and flushing it down a toilet. And he makes money now, apparently.

The End.

OK, yeah this obviously wasn't my kind of movie, so what can I say?  It's not that it was bad, but I don't care.  Like I said in the podcast, I am much more willing to suspend belief for a fantasy or superhero movie than I am for a movie that is rooted in reality.  I like a happy ending, but I don't understand how that could have possibly happened, and Bodevan even SAYS THAT THEY'LL LOSE BEN, TOO, if they grave rob, and then Ben does it anyway, and Bodevan is suddenly on board.

So, I dunno.  If this is your kind of film, then you should see it. If it isn’t, it still has a great cast (even if Steve Zahn was criminally underused), so maybe see it, anyway.  No, Wes Anderson didn’t have anything to do with it.  I checked a few times.     

Grade: C

Captain Fantastic (2016) (Available on Showtime)

Viggo Mortensen…………….Ben (LOTR, Eastern Promises, Hidalgo, A History of Violence)

George MacKay…….……Bodevan (Defiance, 11.22.63, lots of British stuff I don’t know)

Samantha Isler.………………Kielyr (Sean Saves the World, Molly’s Game)

Annalise Basso……………….Vespyr (Oculus, Ouija: Origin of Evil, Slenderman)

Nicholas Hamilton…………….Rellian (IT, The Dark Tower)

Shree Crooks………………….Zaja (Ray Donovan, American Horror Story: Hotel)

Charlie Shotwell………………..Nai (All the Money in the World)

Trin Miller………………………Leslie (A lot of shorts and TV shows, but none that I recognize)

Kathryn Hahn…………………Harper (Parks & Rec, The Visit, Bad Moms)

Steve Zahn…………………..Dave (Perfect Getaway, Rescue Dawn, That Thing You Do, Reality Bites, lots of TV)

Erin Moriarty………………….Claire (The Watch, Jessica Jones SE1)

Missi Pyle…………………….Ellen (Galaxy Quest, Charlie & the Chocolate Factory, TONS of TV, 169 credits)

Frank Langella……………..Jack (The Box, Masters of the Universe)

Ann Dowd……………………Abigail (The Leftovers, The Handmaid’s Tale) She’s a Hey, It’s That Guy!

A Cure for Spoilers

This week on My Bleeding Ears (Listen to us on Google Play or Sound Cloud!), I fumbled over my words a lot talked a little bit about a film I finally got around to seeing. Now, I'm going to spoil everything about the 2016 film, "A Cure for Wellness."  This movie clocks in at two hours and 27 minutes, so if you want everything spoiled for you, strap in.  My notes alone were six or seven pages long.  This is going to take forever.  So why am I wasting our time moaning about it?  Let's go. 

Some middle-aged white guy (you're not going to get a lot of diversity in this movie and I suppose it's for a reason) is looking at charts and typing on a computer in New York or something, I don't know, I don't recognize skylines.  He sees a letter on his desk sealed with a wax logo of what looks like snakes foreshadowing.  He grabs his chest, alarmed, goes to get some water, chugs it foreshadowing, grabs his chest again, dies. 

Lockhart (Dane DeHaan), is on a train in Europe somewhere on his phone and laptop, doing and saying executive things about moving money. He has also received a letter with the snake logo. The letter is narrated by the writer as a flashback begins.

"To my fellow members of the board: a man cannot unsee the truth. He cannot willingly return to darkness or go blind once he has the gift of sight, any more than he can be unborn.  We are the only species capable of self-reflection."

*Cut to a dead goldfish in a bowl in an office*

"The only species with the toxin of self-doubt written into our genetic code. Unequal to our gifts, we build, we buy, we consume."

*Lockhart approaches the bowl and takes the fish out of it*

"We wrap ourselves in the illusion of material success." 

*Throws the fish away*

"We cheat and deceive as we claw our way to the pinnacle of what we define as achievement: superiority to other men."

*Stares out a high office window* (and no, I still don't recognize the buildings, but this was released in the UK before the US, so, I probably have a decent excuse)

Lockhart meets with the board of directors. If they stated their business, I missed it, but I don't think they do, because that's not the point. You'll see. Blah blah blah financial stuff, blah blah cooking the books like an amateur, blah needs a vote from Mr. Pembroke, who has disappeared to a wellness center in the Swiss Alps. (Spoiler Inception: he wrote the letter) Lockhart vows to get him himself and bring him back to New York or wherever.  

 

Lockhart goes to an old folks' home to say goodbye to his mother, who guilts him about the home and then pulls out a toy ballerina.  She tells him a story about the ballerina.

Mom: She's asleep

Lockhart: But she's dancing.

Mom: That's because she doesn't know she's dreaming.

And scene.  OK...

A limo drives Lockhart to the wellness center in the Swiss Alps.  The limo driver tells him a story about the history of the place.  The first family to own the property lived there 200 years ago (The Von Heichmeils).  The last baron was so obsessed with the purity of his bloodline that he raped his sister a bunch of times married his sister and she got pregnant.  On their wedding night, the villagers came to the castle and burned her alive while he watched. Then they burned the whole place down. 

Lockhart arrives at the property.  I read this was actually filmed in an old facility in Germany.  The nurses are dressed in old-timey nurse dresses and hats and both these things give the setting a very 1930s feel. He asks for Pembroke and the nurse is all cagey about it.  That's gonna be a whole thing with the staff and the patients at this place. 

He leaves in the car and the car crashes.  It made me jump and it looks pretty bad. Good bit of filming. The last thing we see (from Lockhart's perspective, which is essentially how the whole film is shot) is a moose dying in the street, like, thanks a lot for that, Gore. 

Lockhart wakes up back at the center.  His leg is in a cast, so he's stuck there.

I've already seen Shutter Island and its tired-looking 32 year-old star is more near
and dear to my heart is all I'm sayin. Ok, clearly I'm also saying these movies
feel pretty similar so far.

There's so much fluid, tranquil imagery in this film, but I am really trying to pick up the pace here, so just know that you're going to see a lot of bodies of water and people floating in water.  There are pools and tubs all over the property.  Lockhart watches swimmers all coordinated and their body types are all exactly the same.

Easily in my top 10 favorite villains.  Probably top 5. 

He finds Pembroke and it's the Mayor of Sunnydale!! We found him! He acts super strange and talks about blindness and seeing some more.  Pembroke reveals to us that Lockhart's father wasn't around because when Lockhart was a child, his dad pitched off a bridge while Lockhart watched from the car.  That scene will be replayed for us a few times.  It is obviously pretty upsetting for Lockhart to remember.

Lockhart meets a girl named Hannah (Mia Goth) who's been here her whole life.  The interaction is creepy, much like this whole movie's vibe.

Dr. Volmer (Jason Isaacs) is talking to Lockhart and as he does, he takes a little blue vial and dips the dropper on his tongue calling it "vitamins." he says Pembroke took a turn for the worse and can't have visitors.  He convinces Lockhart to undergo the wellness treatment while he's stuck here, so he does.  He pees in a cup and sees another cup of pee from another patient that looks like it has teeny little penises in it foreshadowing. 

I don't know, I still think I'd get bored in there. 
Maybe not with eels, I guess. 

Now he's in a sensory deprivation chamber and sees the vision of his dad again. Soon all these eels start swirling around him so he freaks out, but the orderly can't hear him because he's busy fapping to a nurse who took her top off for him while she feeds him "vitamins."

Lockhart talks to Hannah again.  He shows her the ballerina.

Lockhart: She's dreaming and she doesn't know it.

Hannah: What will happen when she wakes up?

Lockhart: I don't know.  My mother never finished the story.

They go into town so Lockhart can ask a veterinarian about Pembroke's dental records. The vet says Pembroke is dehydrated HAHAHA. and then slits a cow from neck to genitals because his leg is broken. It's awful and all these eels come pouring out. Lockhart calls the board and finds out Pembroke's wife was infertile foreshadowing.  At a bar, Hannah dances to the jukebox, a local scumbag creeps on her, Lockhart punches him, Dr. Volmer shows up and takes them back to the property.

Lockhart dreams of Hannah in a bathtub with eels.  He wakes up to a rattling toilet handle, goes to the mirror and pulls out one of his canines.  He uses it to distract a nurse so he can see what wing Pembroke is in according to the desk roster. 

He goes there and finds a bunch of what look like iron lungs. He finds this old lady patient who mistook him for Pembroke earlier in the film and she cryptically says that Lockhart took Pembroke back to New York (I guess it was New York). 

He finds another room with patients suspended in water like prison in Demolition Man kinda.  Pembroke is among them.  (This whole time, Lockhart is really flipping his shit because of course he is.)  Volmer catches him, straps him down and drills a hole in his front tooth because he's evil, you guys, have you not been paying attention?

Lockhart goes to the police, who think he's nuts.  Volmer comes to pick him up saying, "You are not a well man."  They go back, and we find Pembroke, who says that Lockhart is trying to kidnap him.  Right around here, we notice what appears to be some Nazi memorabilia in Volmer's office, in case you were still like, "No, I bet he's a good guy."

Lockhart wakes up the next morning and pulls the lid off the rattling toilet to reveal--you guessed it--EELS!

He writes a letter to...the board?

"There is a sickness inside each of us.  We deal in lies and distraction until one day the body is one with the mind.  A man cannot unsee the truth. He cannot willingly return to darkness or go blind once given the gift of sight, any more than he can be unborn."

He cuts off his cast and his leg is fine.  More creepy imagery of weird stuff in jars and glass vials yadda yadda.

We find Hannah again.  Lockhart watches as she gets into a pool and starts to menstruate.  The eels get really excited about that so, yuck. Staff dumps a bunch of bodies into the pool. Lockhart kills one of the staff and chases Hannah into a cafeteria where he starts screaming that the water is killing them.  "There is no cure!!"  Everyone stands up slowly and we're supposed to think they finally get it, but they don't, and they grab Lockhart. 

He ends up in an iron lung next to Pembroke, who says he's never felt better.  Volmer comes in and shoves a tube in Lockhart's mouth so the eels can get in there.

"What you don't understand is that no one wants to leave.  Do you know what the cure for the human condition is?  Disease. Because only then is there hope for a cure."

Later, Hannah goes outside and finds Lockhart staring out into space. She sits next to him, takes the ballerina and says, "She's awake now." Lockhart turns to her. She says that he made her believe she could leave one day and he smiles and responds, "Why would anyone want to leave?"  She gives him the ballerina and exits.

It seems redundant to say, but this is when the movie
starts getting really weird.

A group of, I guess, nuns with lanterns walk in and surround the bridge to the property. Volmer is in robes at a shine with-- yup--water.  Hannah walks up in a wedding dress. He puts a locket around her neck. Lockhart looks at the ballerina while everyone in the great Hall dances in celebration.

Volmer unveils a bed to Hannah, ties her up, and Lockhart starts to figure it out in a, "I'm figuring it all out," montage. Volmer is the baron from the story, and Hannah is his daughter-niece, who somehow survived. 

"We tried so many times to make something pure. That something was you, but now we can begin again."

BRB, I need to take a shower. 

Oh, awesome a rape scene with nudity and digital penetration.  He smells his fingers and says he's waited so long. Lockhart comes in as Volmer pulls his damn face off and it's all Red Skull underneath.  Lockhart sets him on fire with the doll. (And gasoline.)  Volmer walks it off and there's a fight to either free or rape Hannah, respectively.  Volmer gets the upper hand, but Hannah chops his head in half with a shovel and he falls into the water. Volmer is dead and the entire facility is on fire.  Yup, this is where this whole long-ass movie was going. 

Everybody is still dancing outside in the flames as Lockhart and Hannah escape on her bike.  They get hit by a car. It's the board. They say they're looking for Pembroke. They tell him to get in the car and Lockhart refuses.

Board Guy: Have you lost your mind?

Lockhart: Actually, I'm feeling much better.

The end. 

My first thought was obviously that this movie is entirely too long. Wrap it up in two hours, I know you can do that. The themes of this movie were surely supposed to be a closer look at greed and consumerism, both on Wall Street, and in homeopathic "wellness" remedies, or even modern medicine.  They are both evil money-making schemes and we are "asleep" because we go through life "blindly" allowing it all.  Consume, consume, consume.  I know the incest theme wasn't exactly out of left field, because we heard the story early on in the movie, but I never thought that this would be the point at the end. 

Both wealth/power and purity of bloodline would fall under the same umbrella of what Pembroke's letter was getting at, "We cheat and deceive as we claw our way to the pinnacle of what we define as achievement. Superiority to other men."  It's just...I feel like Justin Haythe should have picked one and not tried to illustrate both. It makes the ending maddeningly stupid. That's why I said in our podcast that I think I liked it, but it pisses me off that I liked it. 

Also, Lockhart's Daddy Issues felt tacked on. (I get it, he "woke up," and couldn't take it, so he killed himself, and oh look at that, he killed himself with WATER.) 🙄

It is beautifully shot, and I think when we roll our eyes and groan about the the 9th over-bloated "Pirates" movie, we forget that Gore Verbinski is also behind the US remake of the Ring, which still scares the shit out of me when I have to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night.  He's a talented guy, and I'm not saying we should forgive him for "The Lone Ranger," but we have to acknowledge his skill as a filmmaker. 

To sum up, I don't know what I expected from the trailer, but it wasn't this. To its credit, I needed time to soak it in and let it wash over me HAHAHAHAHAHAHA I'm hilarious. I'd say you should give it a watch if you have A LOT of time to kill. 

Grade: C+

A Cure for Wellness (Available on HBO)

Director: Gore Verbinski (Pirates of the Caribbean, The Ring, The Mexican, Mousehunt)

Writer: Justin Haythe (screenplay by), Justin Haythe (story by) (Revolutionary Road, The Lone Ranger, Red Sparrow)

Cast:

Dane DeHaan……………Lockhart (Chronicle, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, Amazing Spiderman 2)

Jason Isaacs……………..Volmer (Harry Potter, The OA, Start Trek: Discovery)

Mia Goth………………….Hannah (Nymphomaniac, upcoming Suspiria remake)

Ivo Nandi………………….Enrico (Teen Wolf, Sons of Anarchy)

Adrian Schiller…………….Deputy Director (Suffragette, The Danish Girl)

Celia Imrie…………….…..Victoria Watkins (Mama Mia 2, tons of British TV)

Harry Groener…………….Pembroke (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, About Schmidt, Road to Perdition, lots of TV)

Tomas Norström……….…Frank Hill (lots of Swedish movies and TV)

Ashok Mandanna………...Ron Nair

Magnus Krepper………….Pieter the Vet

Peter Benedict..…………..Constable

Michael Mendl…………….Bartender

Maggie Steed……………..Mrs. Abramov

Craig Wroe………………..Morris

David Bishins……………..Hank Green