Catching Feelings

Jun 18, 2017

1h 55m

★ 4.5

Overview

Set in a chic and middle class Johannesburg, a jaded academic and his journalist wife have their lives turned upside down when a celebrated and hedonistic older writer unexpectedly moves into their home.

Genres

Romance

Comedy

Drama

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Cast

Max

Kagiso Lediga

Sam

Pearl Thusi

Heiner

Andrew Buckland

Joel

Akin Omotoso

Lazola Yoko

Precious Makgaretsa

Tabitha

Kate Liquorish

Nicole

Tessa Jubber

Heart Attack Girl 1

Yamkela Mvenya

Heart Attack Girl 2

Tesebo Kotlolo

The lives of Ted and Marion Cole are thrown into disarray when their two adolescent sons die in a car wreck. Marion withdraws from Ted and Ruth, the couple's daughter. Ted, a well-known writer, hires as his assistant a student named Eddie, who looks oddly similar to one of the Coles' dead sons. The couple separate, and Marion begins an affair with Eddie, while Ted has a dalliance with his neighbor Evelyn.

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