House!
Synopsis
But Linda discovers she has a gift: she can guess the numbers before they're called. She can decide who wins the games. The pathway to salvation is clear - everyone comes to the lucky hall. But who should she gift the million to? In desperation she seeks her auntie Beth's advice. 'Leave it well alone' is Beth's advice, telling Linda that her (recently deceased) Mother had the same strange abilities. But Linda doesn't leave it and soon finds that some gifts are best left unwrapped.
Details
- Year
- 2000
- Type of film
- Features
- Running time
- 93 mins
- Format
- 35mm Fuji
- Director
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Julian Kemp
- Producer
- David Ball
- Editor
- Jonathan Rudd
- Screenwriter
- Jason Sutton
- Director of Photography
- Kjell Vassdal
- Sound
- Alan Jones, Ian Trapp
- Composer
- Mark Thomas
- Principal cast
- Kelly Macdonald, Miriam Margolyes, Freddie Jones
Categories
Production Status
Production Company
Wire Films Ltd Contact: Michael Kelk michaelkelk@compuserve.com
Sales Company
Victor Film Company Contact: Vic Bateman 39/43 Brewer Street London W1R 3FD Tel: 020 7494 4477 Fax: 020 7494 4488 post@victor-film-co.demon.co.uk www.victor-film-co.demon.co.uk
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House!
Director: Julian Kemp
Year: 2000
A tale of bingo hall rivalry set in the Welsh Valleys, House! stars Kelly Macdonald as Linda, a young bingo addict with a gift for guessing the numbers before they come up. When a new mega bingo arena under construction a mile up the valley threatens to close down her beloved Scala bingo hall, she tries to use her powers to save it, with comic results.<br /> <br /> Jason Sutton's screenplay for the film received a reading at the Television Arts Performance Showcase in 1998 where first-time feature director Julian Kemp saw it and was immediately struck by its cinematic potential. "It was really funny and tapped into the humour of South Wales," he says. Kemp showed the script to producer Michael Kelk, with whom he had previously worked on children's television programmes, after which Kelk optioned the rights to the script. The next step was casting. Kemp says: "For Linda, we needed someone who was in their early 20s, who had real vitality and who could believably come from a small Welsh town. Surprisingly that turned out to be quite a short list and Kelly was at the top of it."<br /> <br /> Kemp took the unusual step of recruiting Kjell Vassdal, a Norwegian director of photography to capture Wales on film. "I saw a fabulous Norwegian film called Junkmail in which the weather is very bad, but Kjell made it look spectacular. I thought if he can make Oslo look great, he can make Cardiff look great, and he did."<br /> <br /> The film was released in the UK earlier this year.
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