An all-South African cast and crew brings a story to life that will touch your heart and tickle your funny bone.
Are you ready to laugh? Then grab the popcorn and head to the cinemas to watch Just Now Jeffrey, which explores growing up in South Africa in the 1980s.
'After years in the making, the movie was snapped up on completion by international film festivals in Toronto, Beverly Hills and Poland; as well as Ster-Kinekor, Nu Metro, the Labia and bioscope theatres locally. It’s been praised for its world-class production, beautiful cinematography, art direction, and catchy soundtrack,” says a press release on the movie which was released on Friday.While the world was radically changing around him, teenager Jeffrey Greenbaum hardly noticed.
The comedy is set in Johannesburg in 1989 and features an all-star ensemble cast including Rob van Vuuren, Nicky Rebelo, Nik Rabinowitz, Natasha Loring, Frances Sholto-Douglas, Mila Rayne and Meghan Oberholzer.The writers and directors, Brett Morris and Hylton Tannenbaum, have been best friends since the age of 12 and after more than 25 years of working, and winning awards together, have realised their dream of making a movie.
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