Bella Ramsey has spent two seasons evading deadly fungal zombies and even deadlier human survivors on HBO's The Last of Us. Now, they're in a life-or-death struggle of a different kind in the coming-of-age cancer dramedy Sunny Dancer. Collider is proud to exclusively present a sneak peek from the movie before it hits North American theaters this week. Sunny Dancer stars Ramsey as Ivy Pritchard, a 17-year-old cancer survivor whose disease is in remission. As she struggles to make connections with her classmates, her parents (Baby Reindeer's Jessica Gunning and House of the Dragon's James Norton) send her to CRF Camp, a program for minors with cancer.

At camp, she finds people she has something in common with, including camp president Patrick (Neil Patrick Harris, How I Met Your Mother), and campers Ella (Ruby Stokes, Bridgerton), Ralph (Earl Cave, Dune: Prophecy), and Archie (Conrad Khan, Peaky Blinders). She soon forms a special connection with fellow camper Jake (Daniel Quinn-Toye, Sterling Point), but she's about to discover just how fleeting life can be. The film was released in theaters earlier this year in the UK, and currently holds a sterling 88% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

In our sneak peek, Ivy's parents drop her off at the camp, with her mother doing her best to ingratiate her daughter with the other campers in the most humiliating way possible, while also maybe getting her in trouble already with camp head Patrick. Regarding the sneak peek, writer-director George Jaques told Collider: "Embarrassing mother alert! Check out the incomparable Jessica Gunning and Bella Ramsey in this hilarious exclusive clip from my new film Sunny Dancer. The chemistry Jessica and Bella have on screen is the relationship we all hope to have in our lives. In this clip, Jessica is the protective mama bear eager to embarrass her child. Strictly out of pure love." Can Ivy recover from this? You can find out for yourself when Sunny Dancer premieres in North American theaters starting tomorrow, September 18.

Who Are the Creatives Behind 'Sunny Dancer'?

Sunny Dancer was written and directed by Jaques, who has starred in The Serpent Queen and A Town Called Malice; it was inspired by his mother's battle with cancer when he was a child. The film's music was composed by Zachary Dawes (The Summer I Turned Pretty) and by Este Haim (One Night Only), one-third of the band Haim. Musician James Blunt also cameos as himself.

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