Project Detail

Peaches

Synopsis

Frank (Matthew Rhys) plays a college drop out who faces a summer of discontent. With his two close friends the boys pass the summer talking about girls, talking about chasing girls and, well, chasing girls. Kelly Reilly plays Cherry, the object of Frank's affections.

Based on Nick Grosso's West End play, 'Peaches' is an hilarious snapshot of contemporary urban youth.

Details

Year: 2000
Type of film: Features
Running time: 86 mins
Format: 35mm Kodak
Director: Nick Grosso
Producer: Paul Ward, Nicholas O'Keill
Editor: Niamh Fagan
Screenwriter: Nick Grosso
Director of Photography: Brendan Galvin
Sound: Dan Birch
Principal cast: Matthew Rhys, Kelly Reilly, Matthew Dunster, Justin Salinger, Sophie Okonedo

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Stone Ridge Entertainment Film House 35 Upper Abbey Street Dublin 1 Tel: (3531) 8723922 Fax: (3531) 8723687 stone.ridge@indigo.ie

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Nick Grosso's award-winning play Peaches, produced by the Royal Court in association with the National Theatre Studio in 1994, launched the career of one of Britain's most promising new playwrights. Grosso now dons the director's hat with this adaptation of the play for the big screen, an ordeal that took some six years to realise. Exploring the identity crisis afflicting so many young 1990s men, the story revolves around sex-obsessed Frank and his student friends. From a Leeds college bar to the pubs of North London, their emotional adventures are charted in the seemingly nonchalant and comically-hip language of confused and hapless twentysomethings. Frank's summer as a carefree slacker looks rosy until his best friend starts a job scheme. Then, when his other mate moves in with a girl and a college sweetheart tells him a big secret, Frank's world starts to spin out of control. The film was inspired by Grosso's own personal philosophy when, as a student, life "wasn't about work, but about getting up in the morning -- about chicks and babes. Work was just a distraction". Besides Grosso's status as a voice of his generation, the film's saleability rests on its two stars, Matthew Rhys and Kelly Reilly. The former is an up-and-comer whose credits include the soon-to-be-released Sorted and Titus, the latter was recently seen in Ben Elton's Maybe Baby, and both have starred alongside Kathleen Turner in the West End stage version of The Graduate. Shot with backing from a mix of private equity finance and the Irish Film Board, the film will be offered to agents and distributors in the autumn.

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