A ROMANTIC comedy starring Kevin Costner is to open the Bermuda International Film Festival later this month.

The Upside of Anger, also starring Joan Allen, will screen at Southside Cinema on Friday, March 18.

A critically-acclaimed Sundance Film Festival hit from New Line Cinema, the feature depicts "Allen as the sharp-witted Terry Wolfymeyer, a suburban wife and mother who is left to raise her four headstrong daughters when her husband unexpectedly disappears", a BIFF spokesperson said.

"Things get even more hectic when Terry falls for her neighbour Denny ? played by Costner ? a once-great baseball star turned radio DJ, and her daughters are forced to juggle their mom's romantic dilemmas as well as their own."

Directed by Mike Binder, boasts a stellar ensemble cast, the spokesperson continued.

"(It) features Erika Christensen, Evan Rachel Wood, Keri Russell and Alicia Witt."

BIFF tickets are now on sale online only, at www.biff.bm. Tickets will go on sale at the BIFF Front Room box office at the Number One Passenger Terminal on Front Street, as of tomorrow. The box office will remain open through March 23, Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. Individual film tickets are $10.

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