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Last modified: Dec. 7, 2018

The Bookshop

Release Date: Friday, August 24, 2018 Limited

Director: Isabel Coixet

Starring: Emily Mortimer Patricia Clarkson Bill Nighy

PG Drama 1 hr, 48 m

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Plot

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Plot
England, 1959. Free-spirited widow Florence Green (Emily Mortimer) risks everything to open a bookshop in a conservative East Anglian coastal town. While bringing about a surprising cultural awakening through works by Ray Bradbury and Vladimir Nabokov, she earns the polite but ruthless opposition of a local grand dame (Patricia Clarkson) and the support and affection of a reclusive book loving widower (Bill Nighy). As Florence's obstacles amass and bear suspicious signs of a local power struggle, she is forced to ask: is there a place for a bookshop in a town that may not want one? Based on Penelope Fitzgerald's acclaimed novel and directed by Isabel Coixet (Learning to Drive), The Bookshop is an elegant yet incisive rendering of personal resolve, tested in the battle for the soul of a community.
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Crew Behind the Film

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The film's director Isabel Coixet last directed Learning to Drive and Another Me. The film's writer Isabel Coixet last wrote Another Me and Map of the Sounds of Tokyo.

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Key Facts

  • Adaptation of Penelope Fitzgerald’s novel.

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Additional Information

Parent Rating
PG Parental Guidance Suggested for some thematic elements, language, and brief smoking
Runtime
1 hr, 48 m
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Language
English

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Release Dates

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The Bookshop was released in limited movie theaters on Friday, August 24, 2018. There were 12 other movies released on the same date, including A.X.L., The Happytime Murders and Papillon. As a limited release, The Bookshop was shown in select movie theaters in major markets.

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