Project Detail

Enduring Love

Synopsis

On a beautiful cloudless day a young couple celebrate their reunion with a picnic. Joe Rose and his girlfriend Claire are about to open a bottle of champagne when a cry interrupts them. A hot-air balloon with a child in the basket and an adult being dragged behind it has been ripped from its moorings. Joe immediately joins in with an effort to bring the balloon to safety, but in the ensuing rescue attempt a man is killed.

Witness to this tragic accident is bystander, Jed Parry. Joe and Jed exchange a passing glance - a glance which carries devastating consequences and which indelibly burns an obsession into Jed's soul. Delusional and dangerous, Jed's fixation gradually uproots Joe's life; testing the lmits of his beloved rationalism, threatening the love of Claire and driving him to the brink of murder and madness.

Based on Ian McEwan's best-selling novel of the same name, Enduring Love is a story of love, faith and suspense, and how life can change in an instant.

Details

Year: 2004
Type of film: Features
Running time: 100 mins
Format: 35mm, Kodak
Director: Roger Michell
Producer: Francois Ivernel, Cameron McCracken
Executive Producer: Francois Ivernel, Cameron McCracken
Editor: Nicholas Gaster
Screenwriter: Joe Penhall
Director of Photography: Haris Zambarloukos
Sound: Danny Hambrook, Adam Lashinger, Tim Alban
Principal cast: Rhys Ifans, Samantha Morton, Daniel Craig

Genre

Literary Adaption Drama

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Ridgeway Productions Ltd

c/o Jim Henson Company
30 Oval Road
London NW1 7DE
UK

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Sales Company

Pathe International

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UK

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