A Bunch of Amateurs

Cast: Burt Reynolds, Samantha Bond, Derek Jacobi, Imelda Staunton

Rating: NR

Studio: CinemaNX

Release date: 2010

Synopsis:

A fish-out-of-water comedy about an ageing Hollywood action star who accepts an invitation to play King Lear at Stratford, in the hope of reviving his career. When he arrives, he discovers that the play is not being staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford-upon-Avon, as he thought, but by an amateur dramatic society in the rural village of Stratford St. John. The charity performance has been widely publicized, so he is unable to back out.

Burt Reynolds Joins 'A Bunch Of Amateurs'
Burt Reynolds is coming to Blighty to star in “ A Bunch of Amateurs ,” the first movie to be greenlit by CinemaNX, the new production financing venture backed by the Isle of Man. “Bunch of Amateurs,” which starts...