Project Detail

Black Coffee

Name: Black Coffee
Director: Wilma Smith
Genre: Scottish, Woman Director, Comedy
Released: 2003
Duration: 75 mins

Synopsis

Sometimes you wake up with the wrong person. Black Coffee, a brilliantly improvised Scottish black comedy, deals with the hangover from the night before. John Dick wakes up, content with being unemployed. Lynn, an insecure rich bitch, finds herself falling in love with John, the 'journalist for the local paper'. Meanwhile, after years of marriage, Pat has had enough of Eve's too many late nights, leaving their teenage son, Ben, with the biggest hangover of all.

Details

Year: 2003
Type of project: Features
Running time: 75 mins
Format: Beta SP
Director: Wilma Smith
Producer: Wilma Smith, Duncan Finnigan
Editor: Wilma Smith
Screenwriter: Wilma Smith
Director of Photography: John Bannan
Composer: Kasule
Principal cast: Duncan Finnigan, Donna Nicholson, Frank Livingstone, Mickey Kearney

Genre

Scottish Woman Director Comedy

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

FIN Scotland Productions

45 Blair Road
Coatbridge ML5 1JQ
Scotland
UK

T+44 (0) 1236 420 417

finscotland@hotmail.com

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