Absolutely Fabulous : the Movie - wikipedia Absolutely Fabulous : the Movie Absolutely Fabulous : The Movie Theatrical release poster Directed by Mandie Fletcher Produced by Damian Jones Jon Plowman Written by Jennifer Saunders Based on Absolutely Fabulous by Jennifer Saunders and Dawn French Starring Jennifer Saunders Joanna Lumley Julia Sawalha Jane Horrocks June Whitfield Chris Colfer Kate Moss Lulu Emma Bunton Robert Webb Barry Humphries Music by Jake Monaco Cinematography Chris Goodger Edited by Anthony Boys Gavin Buckley Production company BBC Films Distributed by Fox Searchlight Pictures Release date 1 July 2016 ( 2016 - 07 - 01 ) ( United Kingdom ) 22 July 2016 ( 2016 - 07 - 22 ) ( United States ) Running time 91 minutes Country United Kingdom Language English Box office $37 million Absolutely Fabulous : The Movie is a 2016 British female buddy comedy film directed by Mandie Fletcher and written by Jennifer Saunders, based on the television show Absolutely Fabulous. The film stars Saunders, Joanna Lumley, Julia Sawalha, June Whitfield and Jane Horrocks. Principal photography began on 12 October 2015 in the south of France. Theatrically released in the United Kingdom on 1 July 2016, the film is distributed by Fox Searchlight Pictures worldwide. Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast 2.1 Main cast 2.2 Celebrity cameos 3 Development and production 3.1 Writing 3.2 Production and filming 3.3 Controversy 4 Soundtrack 5 Release 6 Reception 6.1 Box office 6.2 Critical response 7 Awards and nominations 8 Cancelled possible sequel 9 Home media 10 References 11 External links Plot The ever - glamorous and self - indulgent Edina and Patsy are now in their 60s, and Edina is still running her PR agency, which is quickly running out of money and interest. The duo realise that Edina needs a miracle to save her PR company and renew her reputation. Bubble wakes up a hungover Edina, who has come home from a fashion event. Edina realises that she signs a deal for an autobiography that day. Edina wakes Patsy up and tells her about her book, and how it will be `` made into a film because it 's about her life '', whilst Patsy self - applies Botox. The company head ( Mark Gatiss ) rejects Edina 's book because it is lazily written and there is little interest in Edina 's PR agency. While Patsy is setting up designer Huki Muki 's fashion event, Patsy learns that supermodel Kate Moss is changing her PR, and immediately informs Edina. Patsy phones whilst Edina is at a PR meeting with rival PR Claudia Bing ( Celia Imrie ) and during the phone call with Patsy she accidentally leaves her phone on `` speaker '' and Claudia learns that Kate Moss needs a new PR. Edina and Patsy go to the fashion event with Edina 's granddaughter Lola while Saffron `` Saffy '' Monsoon, Edina 's daughter and Lola 's mother, has a night out with her new boyfriend Nick ( Robert Webb ). Edina finds Kate Moss on the balcony overlooking the Thames. As she moves to speak to her, she notices that Claudia is also heading for her. Rushing to get to Kate first, Edina accidentally bumps into her and she falls off the balcony and into the Thames. Hysteria pervades the event as Kate is presumed dead. The media immediately storms the scene to report her disappearance and assumed death. Edina and Patsy, along with Lola, are taken into police custody. Saffy arrives to see them and make sure Lola is all right. Edina returns home the next day. Patsy arrives angry ; she 's been fired from her job because of her association with Edina and the previous night 's events. The pair make up and return to the Thames to look for Kate, using Bubble with a flashing beacon upon her head to simulate and retrace how Moss may have been carried away, but the beacon comes loose and unable to find Bubble, they presume her dead, too. They decide to flee before the media firestorm gets worse, taking Lola and her credit card along. The three land in Cannes while Saffy desperately searches for Lola or clues to her whereabouts back in London, finally consulting Christopher ( Chris Colfer ), Edina 's friend and stylist. In Cannes, Edina and Patsy call upon Patsy 's ex-lover, billionaire Charlie ( Barry Humphries ). After Charlie rejects them, they seek help from Edina 's mother ( June Whitfield ), who is celebrating her cousin Violet 's birthday. During this party, they encounter the Richest Woman in the World. To attract the Woman and get quick money, Patsy quickly changes her identity to a male alter - ego, `` Pat '' Stone. The following day, Patsy marries the Rich Woman and Edina and Patsy find the wealth they were looking for as they stay in a high - class hotel with Dame Joan Collins and Dame Edna Everage as fellow guests. Meanwhile, Edina and Patsy are seen in public by Emma Bunton who tells Lulu about their whereabouts. Saffy arrives in Cannes with Nick and immediately heads to the hotel to find Lola. Lola is with Emma who tells Saffy of Edina 's whereabouts, even though it is the least of Saffy 's concerns. Lulu flies out to Cannes and meets with Bubble, who reveals that Kate just swam off and did not drown in the Thames. Bubble also reveals that she is also a millionaire and owns a massive Cannes pavilion because she has had control of Eddie 's accounts for years, and has been embezzling from the company. Lulu reports Edina and Patsy 's whereabouts to the police, since her only desire is to destroy Edina for what she has done. The police find Edina and Patsy and chase them through the town, the duo escaping in a small three - wheeled fish - market van. As they reach Bubble 's pavilion, the van 's brakes fail and they roll backwards and fall into an infinity pool attached to Bubble 's house. Saffy arrives at the scene to find Edina and Patsy slowly sinking into the pool, still inside the van. Edina apologises to Saffy for being a careless mother and wishes to drown in the pool, and to finally embrace the fact that she is old and ca n't run from justice forever. Saffy tells her that she loves her. Bubble reveals that Kate Moss did n't drown in the Thames, and Edina immediately exits the van, realizing she 's innocent. A montage plays of countries celebrating that Kate Moss is still alive and that Edina is her new PR. Edina 's PR agency is renewed, and Kate is in even more demand now that she has been found. The film finishes with Patsy revealing to her rich wife that she is n't actually a man called `` Pat '' and is really a woman. Her wife reveals that she is actually a man and the film closes with the series 's popular theme song, `` This Wheel 's on Fire '' sung by Kylie Minogue. Cast Main cast Jennifer Saunders as Edina `` Eddy '' Monsoon Joanna Lumley as Patsy Stone Julia Sawalha as Saffron `` Saffy '' Monsoon June Whitfield as Mother Jane Horrocks as Bubble and Shirley Bassey impersonator Chris Colfer as Christopher Indeyarna Donaldson - Holness as Jane `` Lola '' Johnson Christopher Ryan as Marshall Turtle Mo Gaffney as Bo Chrysalis Turtle Kathy Burke as Magda Helen Lederer as Catriona Harriet Thorpe as Fleur Celia Imrie as Claudia Bing Robert Webb as Nick Marcia Warren as Lubliana Barry Humphries as Charlie Lulu as Herself Emma Bunton as Herself Kate Moss as Herself Wanda Ventham as Violet Janette Tough as Huki Muki Rebel Wilson as Flight Attendant Rylan Clark - Neal as Flight Attendant Mark Gatiss as Joel Celebrity cameos Multiple celebrity cameo appearances in the film were announced over the course of filming. In April 2016, Fox and the BBC confirmed a list of 60 cameos, most of which had not yet been announced, that would be featured in the film. They include : Richard Arnold Christopher Biggins Ozwald Boateng Judith Chalmers Gwendoline Christie as herself Alexa Chung Abbey Clancy Rylan Clark - Neal as Ryan Joan Collins Lily Cole as herself Giles Deacon Cara Delevingne Poppy Delevingne Alice Dellal Alesha Dixon Jourdan Dunn Beattie Edmondson as Claudia 's assistant Ella Eyre Foxes Dawn French as Talk Show Host Sadie Frost Jean Paul Gaultier Llewella Gideon as Llewella Nick Grimshaw Orla Guerin as herself Jerry Hall Jon Hamm Jodie Harsh Perez Hilton Anya Hindmarch Pam Hogg Kelly Hoppen as herself Dame Edna Everage ( Barry Humphries ) Jocelyn Jee Esien as Nigerian TV Presenter Alex Jones La Roux as herself Jamie Laing Kathy Lette Daisy Lowe Stella McCartney as herself Suzy Menkes Nick Mohammed as Caspar Graham Norton as himself Miquita Oliver Jade Parfitt Jeremy Paxman Sophie Raworth Camilla Rutherford Brix Smith Lara Stone Tinie Tempah Bruno Tonioli as himself Suki Waterhouse Kirsty Wark About 90 drag queens appeared in the film, including Daniel Lismore, and Charlie Hides. Development and production Saunders wrote and starred in Absolutely Fabulous, a British television sitcom for the BBC which originally ran for three series from 1992 to 1995, with intermittent additional series and specials through 2012. Absolutely Fabulous features the champagne - fueled duo of `` international PR guru '' Edina Monsoon ( Saunders ) and `` sex - crazed magazine editor '' Patsy Stone ( Lumley ). Additional characters include Edina 's overly serious daughter Saffron ( Sawalha ), her daffy mother ( Whitfield ) and her even daffier assistant Bubble ( Horrocks ). Writing Saunders planned to begin writing a film version of the series in 2012 and confirmed that she had begun the writing process in 2014. Deadline.com broke the story in November 2011 that Saunders planned to begin writing a film version of the series in 2012. The movie would begin with Edina and Patsy waking up hungover after a party on an oligarch 's yacht, with everyone else gone and the boat somewhere the middle of the ocean. Saunders later said that she hoped to shoot the film on the French Riviera. In March 2012, Saunders confirmed that she was working on the script. She said of the plot : Eddy and Patsy are looking for what they imagine glamorous life should be. They 're constantly searching for that perfect place to sit or that perfect pair of sunglasses. It 's Shangri - La and it just might be round the next corner. In the meantime, they decide to take Saffy 's daughter off her -- she calls her Jane, I call her Lola -- but then they lose her. Calling herself the `` worst procrastinator in the world '', Saunders said in January 2014 : Yes, well I have to do it now because I 've threatened to a lot... And then she ( Lumley ) kept announcing it and saying, `` Yes, she 's going to do it, '' and then Dawn French on our radio show at Christmas said, `` I bet £ 100,000 that you do n't write it, '' so now I have to write it, otherwise I have to pay her £ 100,000... Once you 've had a bit of success, the last thing you want to do is go and make a flop. So the biggest fear in me is that it wo n't be good enough. I 'm really nervous about it. In April 2014, Saunders again confirmed on BBC Breakfast that she was in the process of writing the film. In April 2015, Saunders explained her delay with the script, saying `` I think that 's why I did n't do it for a while... I thought, ' Would n't it be awful if it was awful. ' '' She then quipped, `` but we 're all so old, and Joanna ( Lumley ) said to me, ' Do it before we die ! ' We 're all on the brink. '' Saunders also noted, `` ( The film ) involves all the main characters and virtually everyone that 's ever been in the series -- all those characters ''. Lumley confirmed in July 2015 that the film 's script was finished and that production would begin in October. She said of the project, `` We are all there, the same old gang... It is going to be ravishingly funny ! Very gorgeous... and completely fabulous ! '' Production and filming In August 2015, Deadline.com reported that `` all of the original main cast '' were confirmed, with Fox Searchlight Pictures in negotiations to co-finance and co-produce the film with BBC Films, and to handle worldwide distribution. It was also announced that Mandie Fletcher would direct, with Jon Plowman and Damian Jones as producers and Saunders, French and Maureen Vincent as executive producers. Deadline.com later reported that Christine Langan, Steve Milne, Christian Eisenbeiss and Nichola Martin were also executive producing, with DanTram Nguyen, Vice President of Production and Katie Goodson - Thomas, Director of Production overseeing the project for Fox. Principal photography on the film began on 12 October 2015 in south of France. The BBC and Fox Searchlight subsequently released a promotional image of Saunders and Lumley in character on a yacht. Along with Sawalha, Whitfield and Horrocks, Kathy Burke was confirmed to be reprising her role as Magda, and Kate Moss, Emma Bunton and Lulu would appear in guest roles as themselves, as they had in the TV series. The cameo appearances of Harry Styles, Kelly Hoppen and Kim Kardashian were also announced as filming began. Multiple other celebrity cameos were announced during production, culminating with a 60 - name list released in April 2016. Deadline. com 's Ali Jaafar wrote of the film 's plot in October 2015 : Edina and Patsy are still oozing glitz and glamour, living the high life they are accustomed to ; shopping, drinking and clubbing their way around London 's trendiest hotspots. Blamed for a major incident at an uber fashionable launch party, they become entangled in a media storm and are relentlessly pursued by the paparazzi. Fleeing penniless to the glamorous playground of the super-rich, the French Riviera, they hatch a plan to make their escape permanent and live the high life forevermore ! Controversy In December 2015, the film sparked controversy and accusations of racism when it was announced that caucasian comedian Janette Tough would be playing a Japanese character named Huki Muki. Korean American comedian Margaret Cho accused Ab Fab : The Movie of `` yellowface '', which she described as `` when white people portray Asian people. And unfortunately it 's happening in this film. '' Upon release of the film it became apparent that the character was not, in fact, Japanese but Scottish. When asked about the controversy, Jennifer Saunders replied `` the whole film is about people being what they 're not, Huki Muki is a brand, she is the designer and she looks a bit Japanese, but the moment she opens her mouth she 's from Glasgow. There 's no yellow makeup... '' Soundtrack Australian singer Kylie Minogue recorded and released a promotional single, `` This Wheel 's on Fire '', as the official theme song for the film. This new version of the track, produced by Richard Stannard and Ash Howes, was released on June 10, 2016. The soundtrack, which also include songs from Paloma Faith ( whose `` Ready for the Good Life '' appears in the film 's trailer ), La Roux, Jason Derulo, Eartha Kitt, Nancy Sinatra, Santigold and others, was released on July 22, 2016 via Rhino Records. It debuted at number 38 on the ARIA Albums Chart in Australia on 6 August. Release The film was released in the United Kingdom on 1 July 2016 and was released in the UK on Blu - ray and DVD on 5 December 2016. Reception Box office As of 7 August 2016, Absolutely Fabulous : The Movie has grossed $37 million worldwide, including $20.8 million in the United Kingdom, $4.2 million in the United States, under very limited release and $6.2 million in Australia. It was also released in New Zealand. Critical response On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes the film holds an approval rating of 62 % based on 117 reviews ; the average rating is 5.6 / 10. The site 's critical consensus reads, `` Absolutely Fabulous : The Movie picks up pretty much where its source material left off, delivering an adaptation that, as fans of this British export might say, does what it says on the tin. '' On Metacritic, the film has a score of 59 out of 100 based on 35 critics, indicating `` mixed or average reviews ''. Awards and nominations Year Association Nominee ( s ) Result 2017 Diversity in Media Awards Movie of the Year Nominated Cancelled possible sequel Jennifer Saunders has hinted that a sequel may be considered if this movie does well at the box office. However, on 28 November 2016, Jennifer Saunders confirmed that she `` was done with Absolutely Fabulous '' and it would not be returning to television for another series, or specials, nor would a sequel to the film be made. Saunders now wishes to focus on new projects and spend more time with her family. Home media Absolutely Fabulous The Movie released on DVD, Blu - ray and Digital Download in the UK and Ireland on 5 December 2016. References Jump up ^ `` Absolutely Fabulous : The Movie ( 15 ) ''. British Board of Film Classification. 23 June 2016. Retrieved 21 July 2016. ^ Jump up to : `` Absolutely Fabulous : The Movie ''. Box Office Mojo. 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