Funny Peculiar is a new feature film and television label run by Sarah Sulick and Matt Winn, focusing on edgy, sophisticated, accessible British comedies targeted to a discerning global multi-platform audience.
Their previous collaboration, black comedy The Trouble with Jessica, won two awards upon its world premiere as opening night film at Dinard Film Festival. Starring Shirley Henderson, Rufus Sewell, Olivia Williams and Indira Varma, TWJ was released in UK cinemas in April 2024 through Parkland and premieres on Netflix UK in September.
THE GOOD LIFE will be Funny Peculiar’s first film and will be produced in association with Bright Pictures.
The Good Life
Director: Matt Winn
Screenplay by: James Handel & Matt Winn and Steve Coogan
Producers: Sarah Sulick, Matt Winn
Executive Producers: Jeremy Bolt, Ahsan Mallick
Comic genius Steve Coogan stars as ROGER WYBURN, a London PR guru who restores the reputations of the world’s worst dictators and polluters.
Charismatic but completely amoral, Roger is shocked out of complacency when told he has only six months to live. Can he repair the damage in his own life before it’s too late?
THE GOOD LIFE was presented at the Biennale's Venice Gap-Financing Market this August
and is repped by Metro International for world sales.
MATT WINN
An accomplished polymath, Matt Winn is a director, writer, producer, saxophonist and composer. He has written and directed three feature films and five award-winning shorts. His most recent feature film, THE TROUBLE WITH JESSICA, premiered as Opening Night Film at Dinard Film Festival where it won the Audience Award and Jury Prize. Upon its release in UK cinemas critics hailed it as “wickedly enjoyable” (The Times) and “disarmingly strange” (Sight & Sound). The Express wrote “The Trouble with Jessica is destined to become a new comedy cult classic” while Polly Toynbee of The Guardian called it “A film for our times, laughing out loud at London life snapped in a capsule of wit and great acting".