Will Ferrell and Julia Louis Dreyfus star in the upcoming black comedy Downhill, based on the film Force Majeure. The film will see a couple pushed to their limits, both in their relationship and in the physical world. Here is everything to know about Downhill.
When is Downhill out in cinemas?
Downhill is out in cinemas on February 28 in the UK and Ireland.
The film debuted on January 26, at the Sundance Film Festival, before it was released on Valentine’s Day in the USA.
The movie will be released in other countries throughout March, but overall does not have as wide a release as many blockbuster movies.
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Who is in the cast of Downhill?
The main cast of Downhill includes Julian Louis-Dreyfus and Will Ferrell as Billie and Pete Staunton.
The movie sees the two in a couple who are going through a rough patch and decide to go on a skiing holiday with the family.
Their children are played by Julian Grey and Ammon Jacob Ford, who are Finn and Emerson Staunton.
Miranda Otto plays Charlotte, Zoe Chao plays Rosie and Zach Woods, known for his role in Silicon Valley, plays Zach.
Further additional cast members include Giulio Verruti and Kristofer Hivju, while the film is directed by Nat Faxon and Jim Rash, who also co-wrote the script with Succession writer Jesse Armstrong.
What is Downhill about?
According to the distributors, Fox Searchlight, the film synopsis reads: “It’s the ski vacation of a lifetime for Pete and Billie Stanton and their two boys: a week in the Austrian Alps.
“With both parents unplugged from their professional careers, the Stauntons are – on the surface – ready for seven days of snowy family fun.
“What was poised to be a delightful week of skiing and togetherness instead becomes a series of awkward and emotionally fraught moments in which Pete and Billie have to be honest with themselves and each other in ways they hadn’t expected.
“Early in the trip, while having lunch at a mountainside restaurant, Pete and Billie have dramatically different responses to what is – unbeknownst to them – a controlled avalanche that appears frighteningly out of control.
“Pete’s reaction stuns the family and throws the rest of their vacation and the couple’s marriage into chaos, as Billie reevaluates their relationship and each is forced to wrestle with their own sense of self.
Is there a trailer for Downhill?
There is, which begins with the Staunton family having happy pictures, before Pete (Will Ferrell) describes how he has been having a difficult time after the death of his father, which has made him reevaluate his own mortality.
Soon after, a controlled avalanche takes place, unbeknownst to the family, but Pete does not react in a way many would have expected.
His wife, Billie (Julia Louis Dreyfus) tells a fellow couple: “It looked like it was going to kill us and the kids were screaming because it felt like we were going to die.
“And when I look over at Pete, he has grabbed his phone. Pete left us.”
Downhill is out in cinemas on February 28
