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Black Coffee

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 film
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

Categories

Fiction

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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