Movies Starring Elliot Cowan
Happy-Go-Lucky
Sally Hawkins, Alexis Zegerman, Samuel Roukin, Andrea Riseborough, Sinead Matthews, Kate O'Flynn, Sarah Niles, Eddie Marsan, Joseph Kloska, Sylvestra Le Touzel, Elliot Cowan, Nonso Anozie, Trevor Cooper, Philip Arditti, Tim Glanfield
DIRECTOR:Just how hard is it to be happy? In the effervescent new comedy from writer/director Mike Leigh ("Vera Drake," "Secrets & Lies"), Sally Hawkins stars as Poppy, an irrepressibly free-spirited school teacher who brings an infectious laugh and an unsinkable sense of optimism to every situation she encounters, offering us a touching, truthful and deeply life-affirming exploration of one of the most mysterious and often the most elusive of all human qualities: happiness. Poppy’s ability to maintain her perspective is tested as the story begins and her commuter bike is stolen. However, she enthusiastically signs up for driving lessons with Scott (Eddie Marsan), who turns out to be her nemesis — a fuming, uptight cynic. As the tension of their weekly lessons builds, Poppy encounters even more challenges to her positive state of mind: a fiery flamenco instructor, her bitter pregnant sister, a troubled homeless man and a young bully in her class, not to mention that she has also thrown out her back. How this affects not only Poppy’s world view but also the outlook of those around her begs the question, "glass half full or half empty?"
The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey
Aran Bell, Tom Berenger, Benji Compston, Elliot Cowan, Sam Douglas, Benjamin Eli, Robert Jezek, Jack Montgomery, Ronald Pickup, Derek Riddell, Luke Ward-Wilkinson, Clare Burt, Jenny O'Hara, Joely Richardson, Saoirse Ronan
DIRECTOR:Bill Clark
When a broken hearted boy loses the treasured wooden nativity set that links him to his dead father, his worried mother persuades a lonely ill-tempered woodcarver to create a replacement, and to allow her son to watch him work on it. The commission takes their relationship to unexpected places as the young client makes greater and more difficult demands of the woodcarver's ability, and as Christmas approaches, the three struggle to come to terms with each other, their painful memories and the process of putting their unhappiness behind them.
