British Comedy Classics

Cemetery Junction: written and directed by Ricky Gervais & Stephen Merchant

Written and directed by Ricky Gervais & Stephen Merchant, creators of the award-winning series The Office and Extras, Cemetery Junction tells the story of three friends who dream of breaking free from their mundane lives living in a dead end part of Reading.

Set in the 1970’s Cemetery Junction is a coming-of-age film and based in part on Ricky Gervais’ own early adult life.

“What do you want to go to France for?  There’s parts of Reading you haven’t seen yet!” his mother tells his son Freddie Taylor.

Three friends, Freddie, Bruce and Snork (Christian Cooke, Tom Hughes and Jack Doolan) are out every night, drinking, joking, fighting and chasing girls but dream of escaping their mundane lives in Cemetery Junction.

Forced to make a choice, they must decide between their life of partying and the promise of a brighter future. Nothing is quite as simple as it should be though, especially when Freddie falls for the daughter of his boss Mr Kendrick (Ralph Fiennes).

To complicate matters further, he discovers that she is already engaged to be married to star salesman Mike (Matthew Goode). To get what they want they’ll need to break the rules, whatever the cost.

Bruce still lives at home with his broken drunk father, and desperately wants to run away from his own life; and Snork…he’s the retarded one!

Cemetery Junction is not the film I expected Stephen Merchant & Ricky Gervais to write and direct.  But as it turns out, it is a brilliant debut and a successful switch from television to the big screen.

The film has its laugh out loud moments as you’d expect but also has some very touching moments too.  The three main characters bring their own baggage to the party and leave a great British coming-of-age feel good movie worth watching more than once; if for nothing else but the Noddy joke.

Released in April this year, Cemetery Junction has received a quick and welcome release on Blu-ray and DVD on 30th August and comes with the following bonus material:

Blu-ray and DVD Bonus Material

• Commentary with Writers/Directors Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant

• Cast Commentary with Christian Cooke, Tom Hughes and Jack Doolan

• The Directors:  A Conversation with Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant

• The Lads Look Back:  The Stars Discuss Cemetery Junction

• Deleted Scenes

• Blooper Reel

Blu-ray Exclusive Bonus Material

• movieIQ®+sync and BD-Live connect you to real-time information on the cast, music, trivia and more while watching the movie

• Seventies Style: Production and Costume Design

• The Start of Filming

• Week 1

• Meet The Boys

• The Directors On Set

• Snow Dude (Easter Egg)