Sweetness In The Belly Movie Updates

Wed., Feb. 1, 2017

from Deadline

Saoirse Ronan Attached To ‘Sweetness In The Belly’ — Berlin

Saoirse Ronan is attached to star in Sweetness in the Belly, based on the bestselling novel by Camilla Gibb.

• changed the production status to Pre-Production
• changed the status of Saoirse Ronan as Lilly Abdal to Current
• added a synopsis

• Set in the 1970s & 1980s, Lilly Abdal is caught between two places: one of her birth parents and the other, where she was adopted, raised and fell in love. Orphaned in Africa as a child, Lilly's first experience of her parents' homeland of England is... show all as a refugee, escaping civil war. As lost in this cold new world as her fellow immigrants, Lilly becomes the heart of this disenfranchised community in London, attempting to reunite people with their scattered families. But as her friend Amina discovers, Lilly's mission isn't purely altruistic and a passionate lost love affair is revealed between Lilly and Aziz, an idealistic doctor.

• added Saoirse Ronan as actor to credits
• added Parallel Films as a production company
• added Zeresenay Berhane Mehari as director to credits
• added Julia Sereny as producer to credits
• added Jennifer Kawaja as producer to credits
• added Susan Mullen as producer to credits
• added drama as genre
• added Laura Phillips as screenwriter to credits
• added Alan Moloney as producer to credits
• created the movie profile