Project Detail

Gordon Bennett

Synopsis

Gordon is about to be 40. Perhaps it's time to grow up. A musical comedy from the streets of Hackney.

Gordon Bennett is a small time drug dealer who bypasses the normal responsibilities of a working man and father. He drifts through life like a puff of marijuana smoke on a summer breeze. His saving grace are a romantic imagination coupled with an optimistic belief that his life will get better.

Over the forty-eight hours that take him to the night of his fortieth birthday his optimism is mangled by a series of events instigated by friends, family and fate, coincidences that should make him change his life for good.

The film begins with a council tax dispute and ends with a stabbing on a council estate pavement, via a scheming father, a burglarising ex-wife, a custom dream car, two Danish junkies, half a kilo of coke in a goldfish bowl, three singing villains with varying degrees of psychosis, a very bad trip, a mysterious stripper, a disappearing boat on the River Thames and far too much marijuana.

Details

Year: 2004
Type of project: Features
Running time: 80 mins
Format: DigiBeta
Director: Timothy Brinkhurst, Matthew Zajac
Producer: Timothy Brinkhurst, Matthew Zajac
Editor: Timothy Brinkhurst, Mathew Zajac
Screenwriter: Timothy Brinkhurst, Mathew Zajac
Director of Photography: Timothy Brinkhurst
Sound: Timothy Brinkhurst
Composer: Timothy Brinkhurst
Principal cast: Mathew Zajac, Bernie Shanley, Kezia Hinchey, Clinton Blake, Virginia Radcliffe

Genre

Music Comedy Dance

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

BZ Productions

15/1 Bellevue Street
Edinburgh EH7 4BX, Scotland
UK

T +44 (0)131 556 6637

matthew@radzac.fsnet.co.uk

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