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 film: 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

Genre

Comedy Drama

Production Status

Complete

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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