Project Detail

Poppy Shakespeare

Phil Fisk

Synopsis

N is a 13 year veteran of the Dorothy Fish, a psychiatric day hospital in North London, whose sole ambition is never to be discharged. But when glamorous Poppy bursts onto the scene, loudly protesting her sanity and desperate to get out, a baffled N reluctantly agrees to help her.

In a 21st century catch 22, the pair soon discover that to qualify for legal aid to pay for the lawyer to prove she is sane, Poppy must get sickness benefit, for which she must prove she is mad. Trapped in a crazy upside-down world, where nothing turns out to be quite what it seems, a curious friendship develops born of love.

Details

Year: 2009
Type of project: Features
Running time: 89 mins
Format: Super 16
Director: Benjamin Ross
Producer: Charles Steel, Alasdair Flind
Editor: David Charap
Screenwriter: Sarah Williams
Director of Photography: Danny Cohen
Production Designer: Nina Kobiashvili
Sound: Gary Desmond
Composer: Molly Nyman, Harry Escott
Principal cast: Anna Maxwell Martin, Naomi Harris, Adrian Scarborough, Tessa Peake Jones, Jonathan Cullen, Joseph Altin

Genre

Drama

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Cowboy Films Ltd

26 Nassau Street
London W1W 7AQ
UK

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alasdair@cowboyfilms.co.uk

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