Bodywork
Synopsis
Virgil Guppy is going to buy a car. Not just any car but a luxury car. This is more than a simple deal. Virgil is not just buying a car, he is buying the last piece of the jigsaw that, with the flat, the job, the wardrobe, even the girlfriend, fit together to make up what Virgil hopes is his identity.
Virgil buys the Jaguar, low mileage but slightly damaged bodywork, from David Leer and his son Buddy, two clearly dodgy dealers. Sure enough within four miles the car dies quite spectacularly. Virgil fails to claim his money through the courts and, worse still, his car came with the optional extra of a dead body hidden in the boot.
Virgil is arrested for murder and an impressive array of circumstantial evidence is presented by witnesses as varied as Sydney Greengrass, a retired accountant, who has the unnerving habit of hitching his curiously shaped trousers up way past the nipple line and Poppy Fields, a middle-aged Prostitute fast reaching her sell-by date. Virgil is convinced he has been framed by David Leer, but David Leer seems to have disappeared.
Once out on bail, Virgil's jigsaw starts to fall apart . . .
Details
- Year
- 1999
- Type of project
- Features
- Running time
- 116 mins
- Format
- 35mm Kodak
- Director
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Gareth Rhys Jones
- Producer
- Simon Decker
- Executive Producer
- Simon Decker
- Director of Photography
- Thomas Wuthrich
- Principal cast
- Hans Matheson, Charlotte Coleman, Beth Winslet, Peter Ferdinando, Lynda Bellingham, Clive Russell
- Screen Writer
- Gareth Rhys Jones
Categories
Production Status
Production Company
Automatic Pilot Ltd 9-15 Oxford Street London W1R 1RF Tel: 020 7494 0544 Fax: 020 7494 4099 Email: 113207.3370@compuserve.com
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