You Can Choose Your Friends

Jun 7, 2007

1h 10m

★ 6.0

Overview

Comedy drama about a family reunion written by and starring Richard Herring. It's Ken and Margaret Snell's 45th wedding anniversary and their children and grandchildren along gather to celebrate. For Ken and Margaret's children, it's a day to revisit childhood arguments and to paper over present-day fractures in their relationships.

Genres

Comedy

Drama

TV Movie

Production Companies

ITV

Avalon Television

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Cast

Ken Snell

Anton Rodgers

Margaret Snell

Julia McKenzie

Ian Snell

Richard Herring

Chloe

Sarah-Jane Potts

Jane Arden

Claire Skinner

Pete Arden

Gordon Kennedy

Simon Snell

Robert Daws

Amanda Snell

Rebecca Front

Phoebe Snell

Ruby Bentall

Holly Arden

Eleanor Wyld

Nick Arden

Tony Bignell

Mark Arden

Richard Dean

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