I remember when I was preparing to post Philomena at the Toronto Film Festival and went to get the poster for the film. All that was available at the time was the UK poster (see the bottom of this post) and it was one of the ugliest posters I’d ever seen. Typically I like to use the poster for the teaser images on the home page and in the slider on the front page to entice readers to click on something the marketing department at the studios came up with to get people to see the movie. I did not want to use that poster, and I didn’t.
Today the Weinstein Co. has premiered the domestic poster (via Fandango) and instead of create something attractive, they decided to simply zoom in on the previously ugly poster and make something only mildly more tolerable. I stress mildly.
Hopefully the abomination that is this poster won’t turn you off from the film, which is, after all, one of the better films I’ve seen all year. You can read right here and check out the two posters below and the trailer up above.
Starring Judi Dench and Steve Coogan (who also co-wrote the screenplay), the film tells the story of Philomena Lee (Dench), an Irish woman seeking the illegitimate son she was forced to put up for adoption in the U.S. in 1952. Coogan plays Martin Sixsmith, a world-weary journalist who helps Philomena on her way.
