{"id":737785,"date":"2026-08-14T13:22:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T13:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/737785\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T13:22:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T13:22:13","slug":"bella-ramseys-near-perfect-comedy-drama-with-james-norton-is-now-available-to-watch-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/737785\/","title":{"rendered":"Bella Ramsey’s “near-perfect” comedy-drama with James Norton is now available to watch in the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bella Ramsey’s new comedy-drama Sunny Dancer has become available to watch in the UK. The movie, which also features James Norton, focuses on a teenager who goes to a summer camp after beating cancer.<\/p>\n

17-year-old Ivy (played by Ramsey) is encouraged to attend the ‘Chemo Camp’ in Scotland alongside other teens with similar diagnoses, though after a challenging start, Ivy begins to find friends and connection.<\/p>\n

Sunny Dancer is now out to watch after being released in cinemas in the UK today, so be sure to catch it.<\/p>\n

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The movie comes from writer and director George Jaques, who was inspired to make it after his own family history with cancer, and a desire to defy expectations around the disease.<\/p>\n

“My mum had cancer for a long time when I was growing up,” he previously shared<\/a>. “I think it was part of why I got into writing. Having that background as a teenager, and her getting diagnosed massively impacted the way I saw the world. So I knew I wanted to tell a cancer story.”<\/p>\n

He also wanted to reflect the experiences of teenage cancer patients he met as an ambassador for the Teenage Cancer Trust, adding: “I want to do a film with no hospital scenes.<\/p>\n

“I wanted to make a film where cancer was the least interesting thing about the characters. They have these skills, this whole life, because they are still teenagers.”<\/p>\n

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Sunny Dancer has received acclaim from critics, sitting at a near-perfect 92% on Rotten Tomatoes<\/a> based on 13 reviews.<\/p>\n

FirstShowing.net<\/a> described it as “a near perfect summer camp comedy that is as unique and refreshing as it is funny and endearing”.<\/p>\n

“Sunny Dancer is an excellent comedy starring Bella Ramsey, backed by a fantastic, witty cast of young performers and a few veterans,” added Next Best Picture<\/a>. “This is a gem of a film that should be sought out by all.”<\/p>\n

Sunny Dancer is out now in UK cinemas.<\/p>\n

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Sam is a freelance reporter and sub-editor who has a particular interest in movies<\/a>, TV<\/a> and music. After completing a journalism Masters at City University, London, Sam joined Digital Spy as a reporter, and has also freelanced for publications such as NME<\/a> and Screen International<\/a>. \u00a0Sam, who also has a degree in Film, can wax lyrical about everything from Lord of the Rings<\/a> to Love Is Blind<\/a>, and is equally in his element crossing every ‘t’ and dotting every ‘i’ as a sub-editor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bella Ramsey’s new comedy-drama Sunny Dancer has become available to watch in the UK. The movie, which also…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":737786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[157185,147950,156379,379,243906,381,96,190731,1156,2839,243905,223205,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-737785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-collection-house-of-the-dragon","tag-collection-latest-news","tag-collection-the-last-of-us","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-948b07a2-b463-48a8-bcd8-3a18288329eb","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-entertainment","tag-issyndicated-false","tag-locale-gb","tag-movies","tag-shorttitle-bella-ramseys-near-perfect-movie-available-to-watch-in-uk","tag-sponsored-false","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=737785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/737786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}