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| Director: | Dexter Fletcher | 
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| Writer: | Stephen Greenhorn | 
| Staring: | 
| Davy and Ally have to re-learn how to live life in Edinburgh after coming home from serving in Afghanistan. Both struggle to learn to live a life outside the army and to deal with the everyday struggles of family, jobs and relationships. Sunshine on Leith is based on the sensational stage hit of the same name, featuring music by pop-folk band The Proclaimers. | |
| Release Date: | Oct 03, 2013 | 
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| Director: | Dexter Fletcher | 
| Writer: | Stephen Greenhorn | 
| Genres: | Comedy, Drama, Music | 
| Keywords | edinburgh, scotland, musical | 
| Production Companies | DNA Films | 
| Box Office | Revenue: $8,800,000 Budget: $0 | 
| Updates | Updated: Feb 01, 2025 Entered: Apr 13, 2024 | 
| Name | Character | 
|---|---|
| George MacKay | Davy Henshaw | 
| Kevin Guthrie | Ally | 
| Paul Brannigan | Ronnie | 
| Jane Horrocks | Jean Henshaw | 
| Peter Mullan | Robert 'Rab' Henshaw | 
| Freya Mavor | Liz Henshaw | 
| Antonia Thomas | Yvonne | 
| Jason Flemyng | Harry Harper | 
| Sara Vickers | Eilidh | 
| Paul McCole | Ewan | 
| Elaine MacKenzie Ellis | Morag | 
| Gayle Telfer Stevens | Francine | 
| Emma Hartley-Miller | Janice | 
| John Spence | Brendan | 
| Emily-Jane Boyle | Christine | 
| Daniela Nardini | Chef | 
| Name | Job | 
|---|---|
| George Richmond | Cinematography, Director of Photography | 
| Allan Jenkins | Music Editor | 
| Dexter Fletcher | Director | 
| Nina Gold | Casting | 
| Jamie Oliver | Thanks | 
| Stephen Greenhorn | Screenplay | 
| Kahleen Crawford | Casting | 
| Lydia Farrell | Art Direction | 
| Anna Mary Scott Robbins | Costume Design | 
| Nicole Stafford | Makeup & Hair | 
| Zoey Stones | Makeup & Hair | 
| Jonathan Farmer | First Assistant Director | 
| Nick Heckstall-Smith | Additional Photography | 
| Lucy Ward | Script Supervisor | 
| Olga Fitzroy | Score Engineer | 
| Danny King | Thanks | 
| Fiorenza Bagnariol | Digital Film Recording | 
| Stephane Naze | Visual Effects Supervisor | 
| Giorgia Pulvirenti | Visual Effects Compositor | 
| Stuart Gazzard | Editor | 
| Victoria Dabbs | Line Producer | 
| Mike Gunn | Production Design | 
| Zoe Wight | Art Direction | 
| Harriet Edmonds | Costume Design | 
| Delia Letham | Makeup Artist | 
| Marilyn Edmond | Third Assistant Director | 
| Helen Fraser | Second Assistant Director | 
| Ana Garrido | Script Supervisor | 
| Fiona Cruickshank | Sound | 
| Catherine Grieves | Other | 
| Lewis Morison | Music Editor | 
| Daniel Matley | Visual Effects Coordinator | 
| Andrew Pinson | Digital Compositor | 
| Rob Pizzey | Digital Colorist | 
| Paul Englishby | Original Music Composer | 
| Name | Title | 
|---|---|
| Leah Clarke | Associate Producer | 
| Kieran Parker | Producer | 
| Allon Reich | Producer | 
| Arabella Page Croft | Producer | 
| Joanne Smith | Associate Producer | 
| Andrew Macdonald | Producer | 
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Popularity History
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| 2024 | 4 | 9 | 13 | 5 | 
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| 2025 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 
| 2025 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 
| 2025 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 
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| 2025 | 1 | 630 | 630 | 
Nowadays the musicals are just a headache. When I see a movie like this, I feel those are the time long gone, and its a sci-fi world. Day by day dreaming to get the movies like 'Dancer in the Dark' and 'The Phantom of the Opera' is fading away. This film could have made a good impression if it was a ... regular drama-romance, maybe. Good performances and nice music tracks did not influence to lift the entertainment value, at least not to me. It was based on the musical stage play of the same name. Did well in the English box office, but not that good in the outside. About two young army men return to the home after the service in Afghanistan and try to blend back in where they have left. Trouble in relationship and family issues, followed by going after the dream job across the sea, all come into play, solving all these puzzle brings the end to the movie. Despite a result as I expected, still somehow I felt the movie was not bad at all. That is maybe because of the film's setting that takes place in the backdrop of the capital of Scotland and style of cool presentation with a moderate pace. The rest was good show by the all lead casts probably had a lift up a bit. Like I said it was about usual episodes that occur in a group of known to each other, but belong to different families and dreaming different future. So how the differing thoughts in mind repels and unites them all was told reasonably well. 6/10