Meera Syal, Cherie Lunghi and Peter Davidson have all been cast in the Disney family comedy Patrick, starring Beattie Edmondson and featuring her mother, Jennifer Saunders.
In Beattie’s silver screen debut Patrick, she plays Sarah, a teacher with a chaotic life set only get get messier when she inherits a pug from her grandmother. Her mother Jennifer Saunders will not be playing her onscreen mother, but a fellow teacher. Cherie Lunghi will play Sarah’s mother, with Peter Davidson as her father and Meera Syal is the head teacher of Sarah’s school.
Bernard Cribbins and Roy Hudd are also involved with the film and Phoneshop’s Tom Bennett will play a dog walker, Ed Skrein is a vet and Gemma Jones is Celia, Sarah’s neighbour.
The screen play was written by Emma Watson’s publicist Vanessa Davies with director Mandie Fletcher who directed Absolutely Fabulous the Movie and will direct Patrick.
