Project Detail

The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey

Synopsis

When a broken hearted boy loses the treasured wooden nativity set that links him to his dead father, his worried mother persuades a lonely ill-tempered woodcarver to create a replacement, and to allow her son to watch him work on it. The commission takes their relationship to unexpected places as the young client makes greater and more difficult demands of the woodcarver's ability, and as Christmas approaches, the three struggle to come to terms with each other, their painful memories and the process of putting their unhappiness behind them.

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Details

Year: 2007
Type of project: Features
Running time: 90 mins
Format: 35mm Film
Director: Bill Clark 1st Feature
Producer: Alan Latham, Tom Mattinson
Executive Producer: Phillippe Martinez
Editor: David Freeman
Screenwriter: Bill Clark
Director of Photography: Emmanuel Kadosh
Production Designer: Simon Waters
Sound: Derek Norman
Composer: Guy Farley
Principal cast: Tom Berenger, Joely Richardson, Luke Ward-Wilkinson, Saoirse Ronan

Genre

Children’s

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

UK, US coproduction

Formula Films

c/o Bill Clark

bill@origamifilms.com

Sales Company

Blue Rider

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