Aml Ameen directs and stars in a transatlantic love story with glam-tourist
London locations and a great supporting cast
Aml Ameen is an
Actor and director who made his name in Kidulthood in 2006. Now he has made this likable Black
British aspirational romcom in the transatlantic style, brashly giving his audience plenty of glam-tourist London locations with a cheeky nod to Richard Curtis’s Love Actually.
Ameen plays Melvin, a British writer whose smash-hit bestselling book has taken him to LA, where he has fallen in love with casting director Lisa (Aja Naomi King). Now he wants to take her for a
Christmas holiday to London to meet his extended family; his formidable mother Shirley (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) will be hosting her traditional
boxing Day party.