Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, the duo behind the BBC's Office, travel back to 1973 for this serio-comic coming-of-age story. Inspired by Gervais's Reading hometown, Cemetery Junction is the type of small-minded burg Freddie Taylor (Christian Cooke, likable and attractive) longs to escape. Fortunately, he receives a job offer from Mr.
Kendrick (a smarmy Ralph Fiennes), leading to a gig selling life insurance. His best mates, the goofy Snork (Jack Doolan) and rebellious Bruce (Tom Hughes, the film's true star), can't imagine anything more dull, but Freddie, who wants to travel the world, sees it as his way out.
Not expecting this to be as good as The Office or Extras, but I don't know yet, it's only 20 mins in. I'm a fan of Stephen Merchant and Ricky Gervais so I'm giving this a go
I really liked this film. A decent UK drama set in the 70s and although funny, its a serious film, written and directed by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant