Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie is a 2016 British female buddy comedy film directed by Mandie Fletcher and written by Jennifer Saunders, based on the television show "Absolutely Fabulous". It stars Saunders, Joanna Lumley, Julia Sawalha, June Whitfield and Jane Horrocks. The film finds the drug-addicted, alcoholic PR agent Edina Monsoon and her best friend/codependent Patsy Stone on the run from the authorities after it's suspected they killed supermodel Kate Moss. The film serves as a de facto series finale for the show. Principal photography began on 12 October 2015 in the south of France. The film
Comedy of manners "Excellent Women", Douglas Carter Beane's "As Bees in Honey Drown", "The Country Club", "The Little Dog Laughed", "You Rang, M'Lord?" by David Croft and Jimmy Perry, and the Jeeves and Wooster series by P. G. Wodehouse. The television program "Absolutely Fabulous" is another contemporary example of the comedy of manners. Comedy of manners The comedy of manners is a form of comedy that satirizes the manners and affectations of contemporary society and questions societal standards. Social class stereotypes are often represented through stock characters such as the "miles gloriosus" ("boastful soldier") in ancient Greek comedy or the fop and rake