Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie made. Saunders now wishes to focus on new projects and spend more time with her family. "Absolutely Fabulous The Movie" released on DVD , Blu-ray and Digital Download in the UK and Ireland on 5 December 2016. 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
Julia Sawalha Daylights", while her sister Nadia starred in the soap "EastEnders" and is now a television presenter and chat show host with whom she has appeared on "Lily Savage's Blankety Blank". Sawalha made her debut in the 1982 BBC miniseries "Fame Is the Spur" and in 1988, played a small role in "Inspector Morse" on the episode "Last Seen Wearing". She first gained attention for her starring role in the Bafta award-winning ITV teenage comedy-drama "Press Gang", which ran from 1989 to 1993. In 1992 she starred in episode "Parade" (S2 E4) of "Bottom" as Veronica Head, a beautiful young barmaid