Cheating Nature
Synopsis
When it looks as though she is failing, her grasp on reality falters and she becomes desperate. But then it seems she has succeeded after all, when she brings home a baby.
But babies just don't arrive from out of the blue, and despite JOSIE'S explanations, her sister, RUTH becomes suspicious. When RUTH reads a baby has been abducted she goes to the police, and despite JOSIE'S protests, the baby is taken away.
Solicitors and therapists try to get the 'truth' from JOSIE, who realises that her only way out is to confess to the abduction, again and again.
Years later JOSIE meets a young student, PAUL, who is uncannily like JAMES and before long they become lovers.
PAUL finds the photographs of JAMES which JOSIE had hidden away. He accuses her of using him to replace her old lover, but realises there is more to the situation than that. Disgusted with JOSIE, he leaves her, despite her protests, once again alone.
Details
- Year
- 2001
- Type of project
- Features
- Running time
- 92 mins
- Format
- DigiBeta
- Director
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Pearl Howie
- Producer
- Pearl Howie
- Editor
- Pearl Howie
- Screenwriter
- Pearl Howie
- Director of Photography
- Bridget Bove
- Principal cast
- Sonya Vine, Alastair Southey, Abigail Blackmore, Jane Thorne, Lily Jan Clark
Categories
Production Status
Production Company
Flying Machine Films
22 Keats CloseMead Park
London
SW19 1TU
UK
T 020 8543 3635
flyingmachinefilms@hotmail.com
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