Project Detail

Paradise Grove

Synopsis

Paradise Grove is the first film by award-winning TV and theatre director Charles Harris. A new British Independent movie, a bittersweet coming-of-age story set in a Jewish old age home in North London, it is also, remarkably, the first contemporary Jewish movie to be made in the UK for ten years.

Paradise Grove is a film with a distinctive and unusual voice. Starting with deceptively gentle comedy, it woos us with a colourful parade of sharply observed characters, each with their own quirks and eccentricities, before building to a moving climax with a strong emotional punch.

Details

Year
2003
Type of project
Features
Running time
93 mins
Format
35mm
Director
Charles Harris
Producer
David Castro
Editor
John Hackney
Screenwriter
Charles Harris
Director of Photography
Miles Cook
Sound
Jim Betteridge
Composer
Roddy Skeaping
Principal cast
Ron Moody, Rula Lenska, Lee Blakemore, Leyland O’ Brien

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Production Status

Production Company

Paradise Grove Plc

17 Langland Gardens
Hampstead
London NW3 6QE
UK

T +44 (0)7976 765 850

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