TO OLIVIA MOVIE TRAILER
STARRING HUGH BONNEVILLE AND KEELEY HAWES
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| To Olivia is based on a tragic true story |
Sky has released the trailer for their movie biopic which will air on
Sky Cinema and also in theatres this February
TO OLIVIA (formerly known as An Unquiet Life) based on a true story and starring
Hugh Bonne- ville asRoald Dahl and
Keeley Hawes as his wife, famous Hollywood actress andOscar winner Patricia Neal. Inspiring and heart-warming,
TO OLIVIA features an all British cast which also includes
Sam Heughan (as Paul Newman),
Geoffrey Palmer and
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John Hay directed and co/wrote the film for Sky
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Hill, with
John Hay (Lost Christmas, There’s Only One Jimmy Grimble) as the director. Check out the trailer below the post.
HEARTACHE OF FAMILY TRAGEDY
It’s 1962 and Roald Dahl, an eccentric, burgeoning children’s author and
his wife, Patricia Neal, a glamourous Hollywood movie star, have
retreated to
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| Keeley
Hawes plays Patricia Neal who had affairs with Ronald Reagan and Gary
Cooper whose daughter even spat on her once publicly for it. She even
aborted a child with him. |
the English countryside to bring up their expanding young
family. Tragically, their lives are turned upside down by the
devastating death of their daughter Olivia (whom they lost to measles
when she was seven just a week after she
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| Hugh
Bonneville plays Roald, the author of Fantastic Mr. Fox, James And The
Giant Peach, Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Matilda and The Big
Friendly Giant |
contracted the disease) and as
the couple struggle through the unimaginable loss, their shared grief
becomes a source of redemption and strength which changes their lives
forever.
Life Filled With Tragedies
His books enchanted many generations of children, but Dahl's
private life was one punctuated by tragedy after his and Patricia's
daughter Olivia died at the age of seven in 1962. Six years after that
he will dedicate
Fantastic Mr.  |
| Keeley
speaks American in the film playing the American star Patricia who
admitted that she never actually loved Dahl whom she divorced in 1983, a
few years before his death |
Fox to Olivia. Back in New York, they
also survived a horrific accident in which their four-month-old son Theo
was struck by a taxi, while in his pram,
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The movie will also play in available cinemas in February
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sustaining brain damages. When
Patricia was pregnant with their fifth child, Lucy, she
suffered a stroke which left her partially paralysed and blind and
unable to speak. Dahl then imposed a grueling recovery regime on his
wife
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The movie will air on Sky Cinema this February
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that has since largely been adopted as the standard therapy for all
stroke victims. To surprise of everyone, she returned to work later on
and won another Oscar nomination.
