Project Detail

January 2nd

Synopsis

When a 30-something couple give a New Year’s weekend bash for their assorted friends, the ensuing jealousies, tensions and emotions that emerge from such a reunion cause them to decide the future of their own troubled marriage.

January 2nd is a hip, sexy film with hilarious comedy set pieces performed by a talented cast of young British actors. It lifts the lid on contemporary relationships with a fierce sexual honesty and brings its characters to the screen with coruscating wit. It combines the humour of Withnail and I and the warmth of The Big Chill, with a soundtrack to match that charts the history of the last 15 years of UK music and street culture.

Details

Year
2006
Type of project
Features
Running time
92 mins
Format
35mm
Director
Matt Winn 1st Feature
Producer
Jeremy Bolt, Ivan Francis Clements, Mark Lesbirel, Matt Winn
Co-Producer
Jeremy Bolt, Ivan Francis Clements, Mark Lesbirel, Matt Winn
Editor
Lalit Goyal
Screenwriter
Ellis Freeman, Robert Murphy, Matt Winn
Director of Photography
Simon Coull
Production Designer
Nic Tuft
Sound
Jules Dawton
Composer
Matt Cooper, Matt Winn
Principal cast
Naomi Bently, Josephine Butler, Andrew Clover, Rachel Fielding, Ruth Gemmell, Dorian Healy, Simon Kunz, Che Walker, Julia Joyce

Categories

Production Status

Production Company

Globocine International Pictures

Suite 3
32 Montpelier Crescent
Brighton
BN1 3JL
+44 (0)20 7193 4745 / +1 818 574 5881

January Films

138 Purves Road
London
NW10 5TE

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