Ethel & Ernest (film)

Ethel & Ernest
Poster
Directed byRoger Mainwood
Screenplay byRoger Mainwood
Based onEthel & Ernest
by Raymond Briggs
Produced by
  • Camilla Deakin
  • Ruth Fielding
  • Stephan Roelants
Starring
Edited byRichard Overall
Music byCarl Davis
Production
companies
  • BBC
  • Lupus Films
  • Ethel & Ernest Productions
  • Melusine Productions
  • Cloth Cat Animation
  • BFI
  • Ffilm Cymru Wales
  • Film Fund Luxembourg
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Vertigo Releasing
Release dates
  • 15 October 2016 (2016-10-15) (London Film Festival)
  • 28 December 2016 (2016-12-28)
Running time
94 minutes
CountriesUnited Kingdom
Luxembourg
LanguageEnglish

Ethel & Ernest is a 2016 British animated biographical film directed by Roger Mainwood. The film is based on the 1998 graphic memoir of the same name written by Raymond Briggs, and follows Briggs' parents, Ethel and Ernest, through their period of marriage from the 1920s to their deaths in the 1970s. It was broadcast on television on BBC One on 28 December 2016.