Following recent raves and awards on the festival circuit Break Out Pictures have announced that they will release The Bright Side in cinemas across Ireland from August 20th.
World-weary stand-up comedienne, Kate McLaughlin (a superb Gemma-Leah Devereux) is in a dark place – she wants out. Her morbid prayers are answered in the form of a cancer diagnosis. To placate her family, she begrudgingly agrees to undergo chemotherapy. Armed with staggering levels of cynicism and a plethora of blackly comic jokes, Kate gets off to a bad start with four other women she encounters in the chemo ward; four women from all walks of Irish life, whose unsolicited friendships are perfectly designed to blow open her shut down heart.
Inspired by Anne Gildea’s best-selling memoir I’ve Got Cancer, What’s Your Excuse? THE BRIGHT SIDE is a fresh new dramedy about the healing power of love, laughter and friendship.
It was an absolute joy to make such a personal film as The Bright Side. It has nurtured, inspired and entertained me in a dark time. I am delighted to have a chance to share it with Irish audiences on the big screen this summer where I hope it will do the same for them.
Ruth Meehan, Writer/Director
The Bright Side is a Playground Pictures production, directed by Ruth Meehan, written by Jean Pasley and Ruth Meehan. It stars Gemma-Leah Devereux, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Siobhan Cullen, Derbhle Crotty, Barbara Brennan, Karen Egan and Kevin McGahern. It is produced by Tony Deegan with backing from Screen Ireland, RTE and BAI.