Appetite
Synopsis
Tonight he looks on paralysed as they all sit playing a game of cards. Worse than that, they're playing to see who will sleep in Room 207, a room that's not been slept in for 20 years. A room that should stay locked forever.
Soon the strangers will learn a little too much about each other's secrets. Nelson, the vicious womaniser. Jonathan, the defrocked priest struggling with the anguish of his past sins. Susie, the beautiful Chinese girl desperate for a reason to live. Arthur, eaten away by thirst for vengeance, each night handcuffing himself to his bed for fear of what he might do. Finally Greta, who came here to write a suicide note which she couldn't finish and with whom Jay is secretly in love.
There is hunger in all of them. Talk of hidden money whets a whole new and desperate menu of appetites. Soon everyone is eyeing one another with deep suspicion, only the darkest of which is founded in truth. Deception, paranoia, back stabbing and manipulation of circum-stances become the order of the day.
The fractured lives of all the main characters become entangled in a hilarious and terrifying series of events, that escalate throughout the hotel towards an ultimate and brutally violent climax.
Details
- Year
- 1998
- Type of project
- Features
- Running time
- 96 mins
- Format
- 35mm
- Director
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George Milton
- Producer
- Mark Vennis, Matthew Payne
- Director of Photography
- Peter Thwaites
- Principal cast
- Ute Lemper, Trevor Eve
- Executive Screen Writer
- George Milton
Categories
Production Status
Production Company
Loud Mouse Productions
Studio 675 Filmer Road
London SW6 7JF
UK
T +44 (0)20 7371 9429
Sales Company
J&M Entertainment
2 Dorset SquareLondon NW1 6PU
UK
T +44 (0)20 7723 6544
(name)@jment.com
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