Synopsis

Matt (Jack O’Connell) and Marissa (Lily Collins) are expecting their first baby any minute – but they’re not ready. Matt is having panic attacks and Marissa wants the nursery to be perfect. So perfect, in fact, that she needs Matt to track down the cradle she had as an infant. To keep his pregnant wife happy, Matt hits the road unaware of what lies ahead. The discovery he makes, however, will change their family forever.

Director HOPE DICKSON LEACH

Writer PATRICK SOMERVILLE (Maniac), HOPE DICKSON LEACH (The Levelling)

Cast JACK O'CONNELL (Godless, Unbroken, '71, Starred Up), LILLY COLLINS (Okja, To the Bone, Rules Don't Apply, Mirror Mirror)

Producers GAIL MUTRUX (The Danish Girl, Kinsey, Donnie Brasco), TORE SCHMIDT

Production Credits PRETTY PICTURES

HOPE DICKSON LEACH

Hope completed her MFA in filmmaking at Columbia University where she made three short films that played at festivals worldwide. While in New York she was assistant to Todd Solondz on his film (Palindromes). Hope’s award-winning thesis film, (The Dawn Chorus), was selected for Sundance, Edinburgh, London and many other festivals. Screen International made her a Star of Tomorrow and Filmmaker Magazine named her one of the ’25 New Faces of Independent Film’. Since her return to the UK, she has made further acclaimed short works for Channel 4, Film London, the UK Film Council, NOWNESS and the National Theatre of Scotland. Her debut feature (The Levelling) produced as part the iFeatures scheme (funded by BBC Films, the BFI and Creative England) had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2016 before screening at festivals all over the world. At the London Film Festival she was awarded the inaugural IWC Filmmaker Bursary Award in Association with the BFI, and in October 2017 she was named a BAFTA Breakthrough Brit. She won a Scottish BAFTA for Best Screenwriter for The Levelling in November 2017.