How I Live Now

How I Live Now (2013)

American teenager Daisy (Saoirse Ronan) is sent by her estranged father away from New York City to the countryside of England to stay with her Aunt Penn (Anna Chancellor). Her distant cousin Isaac (Tom Holland) welcomes her at the airport and drives her home. She is introduced to her cousins, seventeen-year-old Eddie (George MacKay) and young Piper (Harley Bird) and to their friend Joe (Danny McEvoy). However, Daisy is a resentful, needy of love, and aloof girl who believes that she is cursed and that bad things happen wherever she goes since her mother died giving birth to her. Aunt Penn is a busy woman who is studying the war scenario in England, which is on alert due to an imminent terrorist attack, and needs to fly to Geneva. However, the next morning, a nuclear bomb explodes in London and the authorities of the United Kingdom declare a state of siege. Meanwhile, Daisy and Eddie fall in love with each other, but they are separated by the military, which sends girls to one camp and men to another. Daisy and Eddie promise to meet each other again. In a country at war, Daisy and Piper flee their lodging and cross England under martial law, trying to find Eddie and Isaac.

Genres

Action Adventure Drama

Countries

United Kingdom Canada

Director

Kevin Macdonald

Writers

Meg Rosoff Jeremy Brock Penelope Skinner

Producers

Charles Steel Andrew Ruhemann Alasdair Flind Piers Wenger Robert Walak Nigel Williams Tessa Ross John Battsek

Composer

Jon Hopkins

Cinematographer

Franz Lustig

Editor

Jinx Godfrey

Production

Passion Pictures Cowboy Films BFI Film4 Productions Entertainment One Protagonist Pictures Prospect Entertainment

Starring

Also starring

George MacKay Tom Holland Harley Bird Danny McEvoy Anna Chancellor Corey Johnson Darren Morfitt Sabrina Dickens Stella Gonet Des McAleer Natasha Jonas Sophie Stanton Nav Sidhu Amy Dawson Mark Stanley Paul Ronan

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