Project Detail

Normal for Norfolk

David Oxberry

Synopsis

Protesting his sanity and denying his name, a mental asylum inmate, 'Ray', is being transferred to another facility. He escapes from the ambulance and flees into the woods. Pursued by Randall, the delusional ambulance driver, the heavily sedated Ray undergoes a suburban trial by ordeal before finally making it home to his wife. But why does she call him Ian? And where's he been for the past year? Last time she saw him he said he was just popping out for some milk. Randall curses his bad luck again. But there's more than one Ray to fill an asylum.

Details

Year: 2009
Type of project: Shorts
Running time: 10mins
Format: 35mm
Director: Gareth Lewis
Editor: Martin Swann
Screenwriter: Gareth Lewis
Director of Photography: Sean Bobbitt
Production Designer: Louise Begbie
Sound: Alex Ashcroft
Composer: Ben Foster
Principal cast: Stephen Campbell Moore, Tim Piggott Smith, Helen McCrory

Genre

Comedy

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Picture Farm

7 Garrett Street
London EC1Y 0TY
UK

T +44 (0)207 566 5879

info@picture-farm.com

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