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Saxon

Synopsis

London, the present. Soon after leaving prison, Eddie has his eye cut out by a loan shark chasing an old debt. Eddie's other eye will only be spared upon repayment. Desperate for cash, Eddie phones Linda, a childhood sweetheart. She lives in Saxon - a ghost-town of grim flats run by a corrupt council. Linda is very wealthy. Her husband Kevin won a million pounds on a TV quiz show. But Kevin has gone missing, feared dead. Eddie offers his services as an amateur sleuth, and so embarks on a comically gruesome journey through the surreal underworld of Saxon: the place where he grew up, the place where his mother works as a prostitute, the place where he murdered a bailiff.
 

Details

Year
2007
Type of project
Features
Running time
92 mins
Format
HDcam
Director
Greg Loftin 1st Feature
Producer
Elise Valmorbida
Screenwriter
Greg Loftin
Director of Photography
Steven Priovolos
Production Designer
Jon Revell
Composer
Michael Portman, Vincent Browett
Principal cast
Sean Harris, Sarah Matravers, Michelle Connolly

Genre

Drama

Categories

Fiction

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Sillwood Films Ltd

Unit B5
3 Bradbury Street
London N16 8JN
UK

T+44 (0)20 7690 4990

M +44 (0)7952 066 252

elise@sillwoodfilms.co.uk

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