Inspired by Anne Gildea’s best-selling memoir 'I’ve Got Cancer, What’s Your
Excuse?', director Ruth Meehan's
The Bright Side stars Gemma-Leah Devereux as a stand-up comedienne diagnosed with
cancer. Undergoing chemotherapy, she finds inspiration in a group of
fellow patients.
Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Siobhan Cullen, Derbhle Crotty, Barbara Brennan,
Karen Egan
and Kevin McGahern also star.
Speaking about her film's release, Meehan said "It was an absolute joy to make such a personal film as
The Bright Side. It has nurtured, inspired and entertained me in a dark time. I am
delighted to have a chance to share it with Irish audiences on the big
screen this summer where I hope it will do the same for them."
The Bright Side is in Irish cinemas from August 20th. A UK
release has yet to be announced.
Check out the trailer and poster below.
The official synopsis reads:
World-weary stand-up comedienne, Kate McLaughlin is in a dark place - she wants out. Her morbid prayers are answered in the form of a cancer diagnosis. To placate her family, she begrudgingly agrees to undergo chemotherapy. Armed with staggering levels of cynicism and a plethora of blackly comic jokes, Kate gets off to a bad start with four other women she encounters in the chemo ward; four women from all walks of Irish life, whose unsolicited friendships are perfectly designed to blow open her shut down heart.
