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Clean

Synopsis

Clean centres on an unlikely friendship between Denny, a rent boy, and Bobby, a public toilet cleaner. Bobby resists the outside world by obsessively cleaning his surroundings and cleansing himself. His desensitised state of mind is awakened by Denny's hedonistic world of sex, drugs and money.

Details

Year
2000
Type of project
Shorts
Running time
24 mins
Format
16mm Kodak
Director
Jim Twaddale
Producer
Roger Brown
Executive Producer
Roger Brown
Editor
James Hamilton
Director of Photography
Alasdair Walker
Sound
Alan Brereton
Composer
Ross Campbell
Principal cast
Gary Lewis, Stephen McCole, Kate Donnelly

Categories

Fiction

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Umbrella Productions Ltd

The Production Centre
Contact: David Muir
19 Marine Crescent
Glasgow G51 1HD
UK

T 01505 874985

david.muir51@virgin.net

Sales Company

Umbrella Productions Ltd

The Production Centre
Contact: David Muir
19 Marine Crescent
Glasgow G51 1HD
UK

T 01505 874985

david.muir51@virgin.net

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