The British Comedy A Bunch of Amateurs has been selected as this year's Royal Film Performance.

A Bunch of Amateurs was chosen to replace Harry Potter & The half Blood Prince after the release date was pushed back. A Bunch of Amateurs, starring Burt Reynolds will receive a gala screening in front of her majesty, the Queen on November 17th 2008.

Reynolds plays an aging Hollywood star who comes to Britain to play the role of King Lear in what he believes is a big Stratford theater production. Of cause this does not turn out to be the case and the Stratford in question is actually a sleepy village in Suffolk while the theater is an old barn that the villagers want to save by attracting a Hollywood star to perform there.

Billed as "funny and ultimately moving" comedy, A Bunch of Amateurs also starring Imelda Staunton, Sir Derek Jacobi and Samantha Bond is due for release in the UK in December.

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