Writer/directors Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin bring the semi-improvised style of their hit sitcom Outnumbered to the big screen in this cosy comedy drama rocked by an outrageous twist. Beleaguered pairing David Tennant and Rosamund Pike have to pretend their marriage hasn’t fallen apart when a birthday celebration for Tennant’s father (Billy Connolly) demands they travel up to the Highlands with three precocious children (Emilia Jones, Bobby Smalldridge and Harriet Turnbull). Meanwhile up in Scotland uptight millionaire brother Ben Miller and repressed wife Amelia Bullmore plan the festivities at his hi-tech country house. When the family convenes the resulting fault-lines lead to a tragic incident involving a Viking ritual and a media scrum...
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