You Can Choose Your Friends

Comedy drama about a family reunion written by and starring Richard Herring. It's Ken and Margaret Snell's 45th wedding anniversary and their children and grandchildren along gather to celebrate. For Ken and Margaret's children, it's a day to revisit childhood arguments and to paper over present-day fractures in their relationships.

Cast

Anton Rodgers

as Ken Snell

Julia McKenzie

as Margaret Snell

Richard Herring

as Ian Snell

Sarah-Jane Potts

as Chloe

Claire Skinner

as Jane Arden

Gordon Kennedy

as Pete Arden

Robert Daws

as Simon Snell

Rebecca Front

as Amanda Snell

Ruby Bentall

as Phoebe Snell

Eleanor Wyld

as Holly Arden

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