Project Detail

Hold Back the Night

Name: Hold Back the Night
Director: Philip Davis
Genre: Drama
Released: 1999

Synopsis

Hold Back the Night tells the story of two youngsters, Charleen and Declan. On the run from the past, their families and the police, they are making their way to the Scottish Highlands. Both are damaged, abused, complex and difficult. As they come to terms with each other and their new found friends including Killer, an unloveable pit-bull terrier, and Vera, whose dying wish is to see the sun rise on the Ring of Brodgar in Orkney, the calm, barren, beautiful landscape begins to exert its healing influence and Charleen and Declan learn to trust the world again. Hold Back the Night is the story of how they learn to become friends and then lovers, while laying the ghosts of the past and reclaiming their lives.

Details

Year: 1999
Type of project: Features
Format: 35mm Kodak
Director: Philip Davis
Producer: Sally Hibbin
Director of Photography: Cinders Forshaw
Principal cast: Christine Tremarco, Stuart Sinclair Blyth, Sheila Hancock
Screen Writer: Steve Chambers

Genre

Drama

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Parallax Pictures Ltd 7 Denmark Street London WC2H 8LS Tel: 020 7836 1478 Fax: 020 7497 8062

Sales Company

The Works 4 Great Portland Street London W1W 8QJ tel 020 7612 1080 fax 020 7612 1081

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