Project Detail

Brothers of the Head

Synopsis

Brothers of the Head is the story of conjoined twins Tom and Barry Howe - a freak show turned proto-punk sensation.

As teenagers in the early 1970s, the Howe twins were plucked from obscurity by a music promoter who groomed them into a rock-and-roll act. Against all expectations, the boys - performing as The Bang-Bang - quickly appropriated their status as 'freaks' and spat it back in the form of searing, aggressive rock.
Grasping at the truth from an array of often unreliable accounts, the story follows the twins as they negotiate love, artistic rivalry, and the cruel suppression of their unique voice.

Brothers of the Head investigates our impulse to celebrate the extraordinary, and our tragic compulsion to claim, de-mystify and destroy it.

Details

Year: 2005
Type of project: Features
Running time: 90 mins
Format: 35mm
Director: Louis Pepe, Keith Fulton
Producer: Tony Grisoni, Lisa Marie Russo
Co-Producer: Tony Grisoni, Lisa Marie Russo
Editor: Nic Gaster
Screenwriter: Tony Grisoni
Director of Photography: Anthony Dod Mantle
Sound: Tim Barker
Composer: Clive Langer
Principal cast: Luke Treadaway, Harry Treadaway

Genre

Literary Adaption Music Drama Dance

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Potboiler Productions

9 Greek Street
London W1D 4DQ
UK

T+44 (0)20 7734 7372

abbie@potboiler.co.uk

Sales Company

Hanway Films

24 Hanway Street
London W1T 1UH
UK

T+44 (0)20 7290 0750

info@hanwayfilms.com

Visit Website

www.hanwayfilms.com

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