The Firm is based on the Alan Clarke's original 1989 classic which focused on UK football hooligan culture, where gangs were known as firms and members were described as casuals due to their uniform of designer clothing. Dom is an aspiring casual who gets drawn into the charismatic but dangerous world of the firm's leader, Bex.
Karen (Archie Panjabi) is resigned to a life of suburban ennui, the dreams of her youth a distant memory. On an autumn afternoon as she struggles to get her baby to sleep she is disturbed by a door-to-door Salesman (Christopher Eccleston). Desperate for adult companionship she engages with the enigmatic Salesman. He makes a claim that he can sell her something that will radically change her life; he offers Karen, an opportunity to fulfill long forgotten dreams and ambitions. But is Karen prepared to pay the price?
The Calvin family win a cereal competition and an all expenses paid scuba diving trip to an idyllic countryside lake. Whilst diving there's an unexplained catastrophic event and they are the only survivors - or so they think.
The Last Breath is a surreal, breath-taking excursion into the dark heart of family life.
Based on an actor who suffers from an identity crisis with his film noir private detective character, whom I shall fondly refer to as - The Mole (his character actually wears a facial mole!).
Downtown Los Angeles - the last customers are finishing their early evening business at the bank. At 6:08pm on 09/09/09 there will be an automatic timer test on the vault. The bank heist is planned to perfection, everything is ready and every eventuality if accounted for, what could go wrong? Wearing Wizard of Oz masks for disguise the heist is on, the one condition for success, they must be out by 18:10. Everything is carried out to plan, until at 18:09, a second group of robbers wearing super hero masks enter; they have been given the same inside tip.
Yorkshire, 1978.
A mother, father and their 3 year old son are murdered. There is no motive.
Incredibly the killer manages to hide the 3 year old's body somewhere the police never find.
The killer was their 12 year old son William.
Malvern, 30 years later.
Ryan is 33. He's an under achieving reporter for a local newspaper.
So why is William, now released and with a new identity, giving Ryan the chance to tell his story to the world?
Because William wants to die and Ryan holds the key. 5 pills being developed by his wife's company.
Can Ryan convince Karen that she should take the risk to get them?
Ryan has 5 meetings to get the story. He has to find out where the 3 year old's body is. Each meeting costs a pill. It's Russian Roulette where every pill could spell the end of William, the secret lost forever.
Ryan also has a secret that will change his life, but the only person who can tell him is his dead father.
In an end, amidst the anger, the bitterness and the demented theories of a tortured mind, this is actually a story of courage, sacrifice and love.
Through the Viewing Glass is the Alice in Wonderland of Film Noir. Pushing the limits of traditional narration and storytelling. set in a land of TV’s, it tells the story about a cliché private detective taking upon him his last case.
