Project Detail

Bone in the Throat

Name: Bone in the Throat
Director: Graham Henman
Genre: Literary Adaptation, Drama
Released: 2015
Duration: 96 mins

Synopsis

Based on celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain's novel 'Bone in the Throat', with the action re-located from Manhattan to London. A gritty fast paced story about a young ambitious chef who, while trying to focus on getting ahead in his career, gets pulled into the East End London mob by his uncle, who expects him to step up and join him. He now has to work quickly to undo his uncle’s mess, while staying alive and out of jail.
SXSW 2015 - World premiere

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Details

Year: 2015
Type of project: Features
Running time: 96 mins
Director: Graham Henman 1st Feature
Producer: Nick Thurlow, Lenny Beckerman, Maggie Monteith
Executive Producer: Anthony Bourdain, Josh Crook, Jamie Donaldson
Editor: Gabriel Wrye
Screenwriter: Anthony Bourdain (novel), Graham Henman, Mark Townend (screenplay)
Director of Photography: Felix Weidemann
Production Designer: Miren Marañón
Composer: Lorne Balfe
Principal cast: Ed Westwick, Tom Wilkinson, Rupert Graves, Vanessa Kirby, John Hannah, Steve Mackintosh, Andy Nyman

Genre

Literary Adaptation Drama

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

UK, US coproduction

Dignity Film Finance (US), Hello and Company (US), Upload Films (US), Wing and a Prayer Films (US)

Sales Company

Hyde Park International (US)

14958 Ventura Blvd., #100
Sherman Oaks
CA 91403
USA

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