Projects with status: Complete

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Frank (Matthew Rhys) plays a college drop out who faces a summer of discontent. With his two close friends the boys pass the summer talking about girls, talking about chasing girls and, well, chasing girls. Kelly Reilly plays Cherry, the object of Frank's affections. Based on Nick Grosso's West End play, 'Peaches' is an hilarious snapshot of contemporary urban youth.

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Nick Grosso's award-winning play Peaches, produced by the Royal Court in association with the National Theatre Studio in 1994, launched the career of one of Britain's most promising new playwrights. Grosso now dons the director's hat with this adaptation of the play for the big screen, an ordeal that took some six years to realise. Exploring the identity crisis afflicting so many young 1990s men, the story revolves around sex-obsessed Frank and his student friends. From a Leeds college bar to the pubs of North London, their emotional adventures are charted in the seemingly nonchalant and comically-hip language of confused and hapless twentysomethings. Frank's summer as a carefree slacker looks rosy until his best friend starts a job scheme. Then, when his other mate moves in with a girl and a college sweetheart tells him a big secret, Frank's world starts to spin out of control. The film was inspired by Grosso's own personal philosophy when, as a student, life "wasn't about work, but about getting up in the morning -- about chicks and babes. Work was just a distraction". Besides Grosso's status as a voice of his generation, the film's saleability rests on its two stars, Matthew Rhys and Kelly Reilly. The former is an up-and-comer whose credits include the soon-to-be-released Sorted and Titus, the latter was recently seen in Ben Elton's Maybe Baby, and both have starred alongside Kathleen Turner in the West End stage version of The Graduate. Shot with backing from a mix of private equity finance and the Irish Film Board, the film will be offered to agents and distributors in the autumn.

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Two 'gangsters' plan the debacle and ruin of a number of successful celebrities whom they believe deserve disaster. A satirical film noir which highlights telling characteristics of the showbiz world.

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A sensitive and delicate account of dying love.

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Like all the films produced by Peakviewing, Pets is an adventure intended for the whole family. Josh Grolman and Jenna Dover star as a brother and sister who get embroiled in a battle over a truck full of stolen gold bullion while their parents are meeting the bank manager in a last-ditch attempt to save their farm from foreclosure. The children call on the unlikeliest of allies -- their pets -- who club together to see off the crooks and save the day. Perhaps the most remarkable thing about the film is that it was shot over just six weeks at the end of last year. That the film features a cast of talking live and animatronic animals makes that breakneck shooting schedule all the more remarkable. "Babe had something like a year, but we had to keep the schedule down for budget reasons," says director David Lister. "The animatronic animals made a big difference. They are a lot more controllable than real animals, who tended to squabble amongst themselves. It really worked best when we had a live animal and an animatronic puppet. It's quite a stylised film -- the animals talk, so you have to suspend disbelief -- but we used lots of primary colours in the design and occasionally went for unusual camera angles to heighten that stylised sense." Since then, Lister has shot two further films for Peakviewing: Dazzle, a romantic comedy about a fairy with amnesia, and spooky story The Meeksville Ghost.

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Tom and Freda spend a summer's day picnicking in a forest. The atmosphere between them is fraught with unease and nerves are soon strained to breaking point. Freda walks away from Tom. However, the forest surrounds exert a powerful and unexpected effect on their emotions . . .

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Four women settle down to a game of poker. Throughout the evening in a heady atmosphere of alcohol, cards, bluffing and cheating, they each reveal more than the cards they hold.

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Poached tells the story of a young salmon poacher who comes to terms with his desire to leave his problematic family and homeland. Set in the rural community of the Scottish borders.

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In the pressure cooker of a Friday afternoon commuter train, scruffy strangers strike up an edgy rapport. But when they hit on the subject of homosexuality, the darkly comic conversation careers out of control.

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A portrait of a child painted on a sheet of glass. There is a barely discernible change in the child's eyes. Slowly the child focuses towards the direction of the audience. There is an uneasy confrontation between the portrait and the audience.

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A romantic undertaker is in love with his female barber. He is shocked to find the image of her face printed in the eyes of a young male corpse. His jealousy brings their business relationship to a close, and an unusual solution is found to his unrequited love.

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When an undertaker sees the image of his secret obsession embedded in a dead man's retina, he decides to make her his final and everlasting image.