Project Detail

Bait (aka The Taking)

Name: Bait (aka The Taking)
Director: Dominic Brunt
Genre: Action
Released: 2014
Duration: 82 mins

Synopsis

Tired of their mundane lives working on a street food stall in the poor side of town, Bex and Dawn dream of opening their own up-market café but the banks all reject their business loan applications. In the current economic climate, no-one will take a risk on them until they meet Jeremy, an independent businessman who offers to fund their vision. They accept, thrilled at first - but all too soon the true motives for Jeremy's kind offer become evident. He is a vicious loan shark and his ways and means are as unforgiving as his capacity for terror and cruelty.
Unable to meet his outrageous payment demands, Bex and Dawn must find it within themselves to turn the tables on their malicious aggressor, leading to a maelstrom of bloody, savage and pitiless retribution.

Details

Year: 2014
Type of project: Features
Running time: 82 mins
Director: Dominic Brunt 1st Feature
Producer: Dominic Brunt, Helen Grace, Jennifer Handorf, Michael Lacey, Joanne Mitchell, Jezz Vernon
Executive Producer: Martin Campbell, Kwesi Dickson
Editor: David Mercer
Screenwriter: Paul Roundell
Director of Photography: Geoff Boyle
Principal cast: Victoria Smurfit, Joanne Mitchell, Jonathan Slinger, Rula Lenska

Genre

Action

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Mitchell-Brunt Films

96 Kirkstall Road
Leeds
LS3 1HD

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Sales Company

Metrodome International

Suite 31, Beaufort Court
Admiral's Way
London
E14 9XL

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