Project Detail

2:Hrs

Synopsis

When 15 year old Tim Edge and his two mates, Vic and Alf bunk off from a school trip at the Natural History Museum they encounter a mad female scientist Lena and her latest invention called The Vitalitron.
The machine is capable of predicting the time of death of any living creature, and when Tim decides to sneak inside for a reading, it predicts he has only 2 hours left to live. Tim and his two friends then run amok across London as he attempts to cram a lifetime into 2 hours, pursued by tabloid journalists Tooley and Graves who are desperate for the story to save their ailing careers, and Lena who wants to make sure Tim dies on time whether the machine is right or not.

Details

Year
2018
Type of project
Features
Running time
85 mins
Format
Digital
Director
D. James Newton 1st Feature
Producer
Andromeda Godfrey, Diana Juhr DeBenedetti, D. James Newton
Executive Producer
David Braithwaite, Merlin Inkley, Kevin Boyd
Editor
Jim Page
Screenwriter
Roland Moore
Director of Photography
Sara Deane
Production Designer
Felix Coles
Sound
Matt Bonham
Composer
Matt Bonham, Tim Coterrill
Principal cast
Harry Jarvis, Ella-Rae Smith, Alhaji Fofana, Keith Allen, Siobhann Redmond, Seann Walsh, Marek Larwood

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Production Status

Production Company

Sales Company

Reason8 Films

Alexandra Manning

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