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Kingdom Come

Synopsis

A middle-class family spends the day together purchasing items in anticipation of the arrival of a new baby. We follow them into a consumerist dreamscape that soon dissolves into something nightmarish. Things take a violent turn when the patriarch of the family is confronted by a group of masked vigilantes.

Details

Year
2019
Type of project
Shorts
Running time
16 min 35 sec
Director
Sean Robert Dunn
Producer
Alex Polunin
Screenwriter
Sean Robert Dunn
Principal cast
Emun Elliott, Megan Shandley, Tony Warner

Genre

Drama

Categories

Fiction

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Ossian Pictures

Alex Polunin
18 Bryce Avenue
Edinburgh
EH7 6TX

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