Life of Riley
Synopsis
In the Yorkshire countryside, the lives of three couples are turned upside down over a period of months between spring and fall by the mysterious behavior of their enigmatic friend George Riley. When general practitioner Dr. Colin inadvertently tells his wife Kathryn that his patient George Riley has only a few months left to live, he is unaware that Riley was Kathryn’s first love. Both husband and wife, who are rehearsing a play with their local amateur theater group, convince George to join them. This allows George, among other things, to play raunchy love scenes with Tamara, the wife of his best friend Jack, a rich businessman and unfaithful husband. Meanwhile, a tearful Jack tries to persuade George’s estranged wife Monica, who left him to live with a farmer named Simeon, to go back to her husband to support him in his final months. George has a strange seductive power over Monica, Tamara, and Kathryn, causing considerable distress to the men who share their lives. But which of th...
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Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producer : F comme Film
- Co-productions : France 2 Cinéma, Solivagus Productions
- Film exports/foreign sales : Le Pacte
- French distribution : Le Pacte
Full credits (14)
- Executive Producer : Jean-Louis Livi
- Screenwriters : Alex Réval, Laurent Herbiet, Jean-Marie Besset
- Director of Photography : Dominique Bouilleret
- Music Composer : Mark Snow
- Assistant Director : Christophe Jeauffroy
- Editor : Hervé De Luze
- Sound recordists : Jean-Pierre Duret, Gérard Hardy, Gérard Lamps
- Costume designer : Jackie Budin
- Author of original work : Alan Ayckbourn
- Line Producer : Christophe Jeauffroy
- Production Manager : Christophe Jeauffroy
- Press Attaché (film) : Laurent Renard
- Production Designer : Jacques Saulnier
- Unit Production Manager : Sylvie Demaizière
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- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Comedy
- Production language : French
- Production country : France (100.0%)
- Original French-language productions : Yes
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Rendez-vous with French Cinema in the UK
Great Britain, 2014
Screenwriter : Alan Ayckbourn
Actor : Caroline Silhol
