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Mark Tonderai (screenplay)
Release Date:
13 March 2009 (UK)
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A young couple on a motorway journey are drawn into a game of cat and mouse with a truck driver following a near accident. full summary | full synopsis
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(17 articles)
Mamma Mia!, Slumdog, Timelords at Screenwriters' Festival
(From BusinessofCinema. 21 September 2009, 8:37 AM, PDT)
‘IFC Midnight’ Features Some of the Best Films on Demand
(From HollywoodChicago.com. 5 June 2009, 12:16 PM, PDT)
(From BusinessofCinema. 21 September 2009, 8:37 AM, PDT)
‘IFC Midnight’ Features Some of the Best Films on Demand
(From HollywoodChicago.com. 5 June 2009, 12:16 PM, PDT)
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Cat and mouse road thriller Hitchcock-style
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | William Ash | ... | Zakes Abbot |
| Christine Bottomley | ... | Beth |
| Andreas Wisniewski | ... | The Tarman |
| Claire Keelan | ... | Wendy |
| Stuart McQuarrie | ... | Thorpe |
| Robbie Gee | ... | Chimponda |
| Peter Wyatt | ... | Mr. Coates |
| Sheila Reid | ... | Mrs. Coates |
 | Shaun Dingwall | ... | PC Mitchall |
| Rupert Procter | ... | Dad (as Rupert Proctor) |
| Carol Allen | ... | Mum |
| Harry Mondryk | ... | Dash |
| Tobias Adams-Heighway | ... | Drummer Boy |
| Dasiy Mondryk | ... | Girl |
| Allison Saxton | ... | Woman in Loo |
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Continuity: When Zakes first enters the station, his girlfriend deletes one photo to free memory for the photo he has to take inside. Inside, however, after taking the photo, he users the phone, which is now supposed to be full, to photograph his hand twice, without deleting any of the pictures in the phone's memory.
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References High School Musical (2006) (TV)
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This rare example of a British road movie is a taut thriller that cleverly plays with the audience and their expectations, and rarely disappoints. Not only is the subject matter a cat-and-mouse hunt, but viewers are also toyed with much like a cat provides the twists and turns to the final moments of a mouse.
Part of the reason this works in an otherwise low-budget film with few familiar faces is that the genre is filled with American examples like Duel: this film takes those conventions as its starting point, but the things we've come to expect to happen in thrillers like this are often subverted and keep the audience guessing and trying to work out what will happen next.
The locations, a collection of brilliantly photographed rainy night- time motorways , grim over-lit service stations, lonely country roads- (DOP Phillip Blaubach) are completely different to their American counterparts, providing a downbeat realism and again distancing us from the territory we've grown to know from other road movies.
A lot of the tension in the movie is provided by the decisions Zakes (Will Ash) makes -or not- which sometimes seem absurd, but always turn out to be necessary - and the fast paced, nervous editing by Victoria Boydell which contributes to the audience littering the place with chewed off fingernails. It's an essential part of pulling off a thriller like this where the resources are low but the game is high. The music score (Theo Green) also adds a vital element to this tension and to the expectations of the audience. In tone somewhere between John Carpenter and Bernard Herrmann's work for Hitchcock, we're often tricked into following our hero's instincts and fears even when they prove to be wrong.
All these aspects made me follow the protagonist quest, dis-likable as he may at first seem, and put any questions I might have had about the acting and budget required for an action thriller aside. It's not without fault as the constant twisting and turning of the plot sometimes feels forced, and the acting in the smaller roles not always as convincing as the lead. But the film exceeds what we should expect so often and works in so many places that when you read how little it was made for, and by a first time writer/director (Mark Tonderai), you can't help but hand it to the guy: he has managed to create a drama that centers on social responsibility, our fears of losing someone we love, and the dilemma of being wanted for a crime you didn't commit. These elements and the tight plotting (I thought I spotted a plot hole but then realized it was completely explained!) are reminiscent of Hitchcock's earlier films like The 39 Steps: not a bad place to be starting as a filmmaker.