Ashes and Sand
Synopsis
Hayley's gang of fourteen year-old girls are on the rampage, mugging young male tourists on Brighton's sea-front. Hayley is half-adolescent and half-woman, as raw and violent as any male counterpart, and just as calculating. She is determined that they will escape their poverty, their crumbling families and dead end prospects by stealing enough money to leave Brighton. The gang thinks she wants to go to London. However, secretly Hayley has almost saved up enough money to take them to Bali, a tropical paradise full, she imagines, of beautiful, androgynous young men. Here she and the gang will find the happiness they crave.
When Hayley sees Daniel, a young detective, arresting a robbery suspect she is transfixed. Charismatic, handsome, tough but also strangely vulnerable, he personifies her desires. She falls in love and lust. She must have him at any cost.
Details
- Year
- 2004
- Type of project
- Features
- Running time
- 108 mins
- Format
- 35mm
- Director
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Bob Blagden
- Producer
- Andrew Holmes, Peter Watson
- Editor
- Luke Dunkley
- Screenwriter
- Judy Upton
- Director of Photography
- Chris Seager
- Sound
- John Cochrane
- Composer
- Michael Price
- Principal cast
- Nick Moran, Lara Belmont
Genre
Categories
Production Status
Production Company
Open Road Films
The Studio37 Redington Road
London NW3 7QY
UK
Sales Company
Lighting Entertainment
301 Arizona AvenueFourth Floor, Santa Monica
CA 90401, USA
T+1 310 255 7999
liza@lightning-ent.com
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