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Sunny Dancer

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Hanging out with mates, partying hard, losing your virginity… That’s how most teenage girls spend their last summer before turning 18. But not Ivy. Her lovingly overbearing parents have other plans: four weeks at Children Run Free Camp, a camp for young adults affected by cancer. A quick Google search confirms her fears with a shitty promo trailer - sunsets, crossfades, everything iMovie can vomit up. As if beating cancer wasn’t enough, now she has to go to summer camp. But ‘Chemo camp’ turns out to be more inspiring than expected. She meets like-minded misfits who just want to ‘fuck shit up’ and live life to the fullest - snorting prescription drugs, downing vodka, skinny dipping... and maybe even falling in love. Sunny Dancer is a coming-of-age comedy-romance celebrating love, friendship, and challenging adversity: feeling most alive whilst the world has other plans.

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Leslie Felperin The Hollywood Reporter 3h
The easily spotted interludes where the young cast, all of them fast-ascending talents, were allowed to let rip, cut loose and improvise their pretty little hearts out cut the sweetness and create needed teenage texture. Go to Full Review Peter Bradshaw Guardian 4d
3/5
Despite or even because of its generic debts, the film has buoyancy and sunshine. Go to Full Review Brent Hankins The Lamplight Review 2d
9/10
The film refuses to reduce these characters to their diagnoses, allowing them to be funny, horny, awkward, angry, and occasionally stupid in ways that have nothing to do with being sick, and everything to do with being seventeen. Go to Full Review Serena Seghedoni Loud and Clear Reviews 2d
4/5
Sunny Dancer is the ‘chemo camp’ coming-of-age movie you didn’t know you needed. Go to Full Review Ben Rolph Next Best Picture 3d
8/10
This is a gem of a film that should be sought out by all. Go to Full Review Nikki Baughan Screen International 3d
While it sometimes loses itself to flights of melodramatic adolescent fantasy, it confidently wraps its heavy themes in a peppy, accessible package. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

Cast & Crew

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George Jaques

Director

Bella Ramsey

Actor

Daniel Quinn Toye

Actor

Ruby Stokes

Actor

Neil Patrick Harris

Actor

Jessica Gunning

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Movie Info

Synopsis Hanging out with mates, partying hard, losing your virginity… That’s how most teenage girls spend their last summer before turning 18. But not Ivy. Her lovingly overbearing parents have other plans: four weeks at Children Run Free Camp, a camp for young adults affected by cancer. A quick Google search confirms her fears with a shitty promo trailer - sunsets, crossfades, everything iMovie can vomit up. As if beating cancer wasn’t enough, now she has to go to summer camp. But ‘Chemo camp’ turns out to be more inspiring than expected. She meets like-minded misfits who just want to ‘fuck shit up’ and live life to the fullest - snorting prescription drugs, downing vodka, skinny dipping... and maybe even falling in love. Sunny Dancer is a coming-of-age comedy-romance celebrating love, friendship, and challenging adversity: feeling most alive whilst the world has other plans.
Director
George Jaques
Producer
George Jaques, Ken Petrie
Screenwriter
George Jaques
Production Co
Athenaeum Productions
Genre
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Original Language
English