Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Jeremy Theobald | ... | The Young Man | |
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Alex Haw | ... | Cobb |
Lucy Russell | ... | The Blonde | |
John Nolan | ... | The Policeman | |
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Dick Bradsell | ... | The Bald Guy |
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Gillian El-Kadi | ... | Home Owner |
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Jennifer Angel | ... | Waitress |
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Nicolas Carlotti | ... | Barman |
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Darren Ormandy | ... | Accountant |
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Guy Greenway | ... | Heavy #1 |
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Tassos Stevens | ... | Heavy #2 |
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Tristan Martin | ... | Man at Bar |
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Rebecca James | ... | Woman at Bar |
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Paul Mason | ... | Home Owner's Friend |
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David Bovill | ... | Home Owner's Husband |
An older man listens to Bill's story about being a callow writer who likes to follow strangers around London, observing them. One day, a glib and self-confident man whom Bill has been following confronts him. He's Cobb, a burglar who takes Bill under his wing and shows him how to break and enter. They burgle a woman's flat; Bill gets intrigued with her (photographs are everywhere in her flat). He follows her and chats her up at a bar owned by her ex-boyfriend, a nasty piece of work who killed someone in her living room with a hammer. Soon Bill is volunteering to do her a favor, which involves a break-in. What does the older man know that Bill doesn't? Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
Vital and inventive British film about a man who becomes obsessed with randomly picking people out in the street and following them
Bill becomes obsessed with picking people out in the street at random and following them. He is drawn into the criminal underworld when he chooses to follow a burglar, Cobb, who catches him in the act and encourages him to take things further...
This is a rare and inventive British film, one not concerned with being flavour of the month in the style mags. Its low budget is displayed like a badge of pride, which is refreshing rather than annoying. It runs out of steam before the end, but Nolan hints at something very special here.