A new film shot around Northumberland and starring Academy Award winner Jim Broadbent is set for its big screen release later this week, with The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry set to earn widespread praise from fans and critics alike.
.The film, based on the book of the same name by award winning author Rachel Joyce,, tells the story of a man, played by acting legend Jim, an Oscar winner in 2001 for Iris, who leaves his seaside town in South Devon to deliver a message to an old friend.
The synopsis for the movie, which sees Penelope Wilton play Jim's on-screen wife, adds: 'Harold Fry was never meant to be a hero. He’s an unremarkable man who has failed at all the important things: being a husband, a father and a friend. Now, well into his 60s, he is content to fade quietly into the background of life. But when Harold learns his friend Queenie is dying, he is moved to act. He leaves home, walking to the post box to send her a letter, until he realises a letter is not enough.
