Chubby Funny

Chubby Funny is a 2016 British comedy-drama film, directed and written by Harry Michell. Michell also stars in the film alongside Augustus Prew and Isabella Laughland. The film premiered at LOCO London Comedy Film Festival at BFI Southbank on Saturday 6 May 2017. It was produced by Free Range Films, Aimimage Productions and Guinea Pig Productions. Plot Oscar is an aspirational young actor living with his friend and fellow-thespian Charlie. Their twenty-something friendship dynamic is put under strain when Charlie lands a part in a Shakespeare play while Oscar endures a succession of less-than-glamorous role offers and a part-time job as a door-to-door paid fundraiser. Oscar's family life is depicted as unstable and competitive while his love life puts his friendship under more strain as a potential girlfriend chooses the consistently fortunate Charlie over him. Rejecting the support and romantic advances from his friend Sophie casts Oscar in a dim light although his efforts to assist a local shop keeper clean up his store after an attack by vandals acts as a meaningful act of redemption. Oscar and Charlie decide to move out of the shared flat although and in doing so may save their friendship. It is left open ended as to whether Oscar will continue acting having been typecast as the 'chubby funny' sort which he is initially resentful of although the film ends with a job offer. Cast Harry Michell as Oscar Augustus Prew as Charlie Isabella Laughland as Sophie Jeff Rawl as Michael Jack Cooper Stimpson as Peter Maggie Michell as Lauren Johan Schiller as Jack David Bamber as Mr. White Asim Chaudhry as Arash Phoebe Nicholls as Aunty Jane Dave Benson Phillips as Babatunde Pierre Novellie as Greg Ben Kavanagh as Felix Hugh Stubbins as Tony Paul Adeyefa as Johnny Simon Alcock as Sophie's Date Alice Lowe as Susan Ahmad Ahmadzadeh as Cabby Anna Maxwell Martin as Sally Julian Rhind-Tutt as Director