Gordon Bennett
Synopsis
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
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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
Categories
Production Status
Production Company
BZ Productions
15/1 Bellevue StreetEdinburgh EH7 4BX, Scotland
UK
T +44 (0)131 556 6637
matthew@radzac.fsnet.co.uk
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