Jump Tomorrow (2001)

Recommended

UK/USA

Feature Film

Director: Joel Hopkins

Writers: Joel Hopkins, Iain Tibbles, Nicola Usborne

Cinematographer: Patrick Cady

Composer: John Kimbrough

Cast: Tunde Adebimpe, Hippolyte Girardot, Natalia Verbeke, James Wilby, Patricia Mauceri, Gene Ruffini

A confused, good-hearted man of Nigerian descent, who in a couple of days time is due to marry a family friend in a (sort of) arranged marriage, fortuitously or perhaps unfortuitously makes the acquaintance of a larger-than-life, heartbroken Frenchman and a sweet, drop-dead-gorgeous Argentinian woman (and her smug English boyfriend), and precedes to embark on a road trip with them, ostensibly towards his impending wedding but also perhaps towards some sort of self discovery, in Hopkins’s immensely likeable if occasionally overly quirky romantic comedy, which boasts a wonderfully subtle, deadpan performance from Adebimpe. Iain.Stott