DVD. Starring Academy Award winner Jim Broadbent (Iris) and Academy Award nominee Brenda Blethyn (Atonement) and based on the award-winning book by acclaimed author and illustrator Raymond Briggs (The Snowman), this beautifully hand-drawn animated feature film tells the true story of the author's own parents - Ethel and Ernest - two ordinary Londoners living through a period of extraordinary events and immense social change. Heartwarming, humorous and bittersweet, Ethel & Ernest is a heartfelt and affectionate tribute to an ordinary couple and an extraordinary generation.