Project Detail

SINK

Synopsis

Micky Mason is trying to keep things together working zero hours. His father is slowly losing himself to dementia and his son is desperately trying to stay clean.
Micky is fired from his latest dead end job and there’s nothing out there but more of the same. His dad’s care home has just been bought out and Micky brings him back to his bedsit. He thinks they’ll be fine. He tries so hard to be. But he’s drowning. It’s not one big thing that sends him over, it’s the death by a thousand cuts.
He takes a course of action that is completely out of character but that seems to him to be the only way to make a REAL change. For all of them.
We’re left with a moral dilemma; in a world where the moral compass has shifted so far, so fast, whose version of right and wrong do we go with?
It's a film about people finding their way through. It’s about Micky Mason; a man out there right now doing his best. But it’s not all anguish and despair. Sometimes it’s warm and tender. And funny.

Details

Year
2017
Type of project
Features
Running time
87 mins
Format
RED 4K
Director
Mark Gillis
Producer
Mark Gillis
Executive Producer
Mark Rylance
Editor
Chris Blunden
Screenwriter
Mark Gillis
Director of Photography
Simon Archer BSC
Production Designer
Lucy Cooper
Sound
Twickenham Film Studios
Composer
Mallik Gris
Principal cast
Martin Herdman, Ian Hogg, Marlene Sidaway, Joshua Herdman
Film Image
©BBD Productions Ltd.

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Production Status

Production Company

BBD Productions Ltd

50 St Asaph Road
London
SE4 2EJ

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