Cert PG
8th December 2022
Audience Favourite Award at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival
Director: Jim Archer
Cast: David Earl, Chris Hayward, Louise Bearley
Country: UK English /Welsh (English subs) 79 minutes
UK release date: July 20
Meet Brian – a lonely, luckless inventor who takes on his most ambitious project yet. Enter Charles – Brian’s extraordinary masterpiece – an artificially intelligent robot made from odds and ends, including an old washing machine, who has an inexplicable obsession with cabbages. Together, Brian and Charles is a heartwarming and entertaining tale about friendship, family, finding love and letting go.
“It’s a Frankenstein story without all the messy murder.” – Oli Walsh, Polgon
“David Earl and Chris Haywood’s story of an inventor’s relationship with his creation blends Caractatus Potts with Victor Frankenstein to heartwarming effect.” – Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
Film Club at the Roxy 