ChickLit

Sep 2, 2016

1h 36m

★ 5.4

Overview

ChickLit is a comedy drama about four guys trying to save their local pub from closing down. They group write a chick lit, or more specifically a 'mummy porn' novel in the style of 'Fifty Shades of Grey' and it gets snapped up. The only snag is that the publisher insists that the young woman 'author' does press and publicity. The guys have to keep their involvement a secret and so engage an out of work actress to 'role play' the part of the author. This leads to her becoming the star in the film of the book, the tables are turned on the guys and she is in control - leaving them with the awful prospect of having to secretly churn out sex novels for the foreseeable future.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

Coach House Films

Capriol Films

ChickLit Trailers

Cast

David Rose

Christian McKay

Zoe

Dakota Blue Richards

Jen

Caroline Catz

Marcus

Miles Jupp

Justin

David Troughton

Francis Bonar

John Hurt

Peggy Law

Eileen Atkins

Geoffrey

James Wilby

Claire

Niamh Cusack

Diana

Cathy Tyson

Chris

Tom Palmer

TV Producer

Andrew Dunn

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