Project Detail

Beyond Recognition

Synopsis

Beyond Recognition is the story of an affluent cosmetic surgeon, Jeffery Mills, and his dangerous encounters with an underworld organisation who want him to change the face of their leader Matzo.

With a maze of increasingly sinister tactics of persuasion, Matzo and his gang thrust Mills into an evil world, far removed from his own. Mills soon finds himself lost in a remote town in Italy, hunted by the FBI for murder - his life and career in ruins. Police conspiracies, poison, abduction, corruption and extreme confusion reign, with Mills desperately searching for answers and some way to claw his life back.

Will he succumb to the pressure? Should he trust the FBI agents who say they're there to help? Whose body is found in his car? And who's really pulling the strings. Mills is manipulated by powers beyond his control, beyond reason and beyond the law, culminating in a fast and frenetic conclusion, with an unexpected twist at the end.

An explosive psychological thriller set in upstate New York and the Italian Alps.

Details

Year: 2004
Type of project: Features
Running time: 90 mins
Format: DigiBeta
Director: Tom Muschamp
Producer: Stefano Clementel
Editor: Melanie Bigeard
Screenwriter: Tom Muschamp
Director of Photography: Neil Oseman
Sound: Daniel Pugh, Tim Wheeler
Composer: Matt Manning, Mike Hatchard
Principal cast: Jimmie Jones, Deborah Martin

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Freefall Productions

16 Cedar Court, Colney Hatch Lane
London N10 1EE
UK

T +44 (0)20 8374 4568

info@freefallproductions.com

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