Project Detail

The Calcium Kid

Synopsis

In The Calcium Kid, a mockumentary comedy, Orlando Bloom plays young milkman Jimmy, an amateur boxer who by a bizarre twist of events ends up fighting the world champion in his home town.

Details

Year
2003
Type of project
Features
Running time
89 mins
Format
35mm
Director
Alex De Rakoff
Producer
Natascha Wharton
Executive Producer
Natascha Wharton
Editor
Mags Arnold
Screenwriter
Alex De Rakoff from an original script by Raymond Friel and Derek Boyle
Director of Photography
David Dunlap
Sound
Simon Hayes
Principal cast
Orlando Bloom, Omid Djalili, Rafe Spall, Tamer Hassan, David Kelly

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Production Status

Production Company

WT2 (Working Title Films)

Oxford House, 76 Oxford Street
London W1N 9FD
UK

T +44 (0)20 7307 3000

F +44 (0)20 7307 3001/2/3

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