The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society

About The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society

Free-spirited writer Juliet Ashton forms a life-changing bond with the delightful and eccentric Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, when she decides to write about the book club they formed during the occupation of Guernsey in WWII.

The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society is a 2018 history romance film directed by Mike Newell. Released in April 2018, it runs 124 minutes.

Its themes are historical fiction, nazi occupation, german occupation, and book club. The film began as a novel.

Lily James takes the lead as Juliet Ashton, Jessica Brown Findlay as Elizabeth McKenna, Matthew Goode as Sidney Stark, and Michiel Huisman as Dawsey Adams. The screenplay is by Don Roos and Kevin Hood. It comes from Blueprint Pictures, StudioCanal, and The Mazur Kaplan Company. It streams on Netflix and Netflix Standard with Ads in the United States.

Army of Shadows, Dunkirk, and Suite Française make useful companions to The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society, all filed under 1940s. TMDB voters put it at 7.4 out of 10 across 1,433 votes.