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The Deaths of Ian Stone

Synopsis

Ian Stone is an all-American kid with a great life and a wonderful girlfriend, Jenny Walker. Late one night, while driving home from a painful ice hockey loss, Ian comes across a bewildering discovery; something that looks like a dead body near a railroad crossing.

investigating the grisly discovery, Ian is attacked by the 'corpse', forced onto the tracks and run over by an oncoming train - only to wake up in an office cubicle! He’s still alive and living with a beautiful but eerily mysterious woman called Medea. Jenny is still part of his life, but she’s not his girlfriend, just a co-worker and one of a number of apparently familiar faces surrounding him. That’s when Ian learns he is being hunted. Destined to repeat this cycle, Ian must make sense of his circumstances before his pursuers succeed in killing him again!

Details

Year
2008
Type of project
Features
Running time
87 mins
Format
tbc
Director
Dario Piana
Producer
Louise Goodsill, Brendan Hood, Steve Christian
Co-Producer
Louise Goodsill, Brendan Hood, Steve Christian
Editor
Celia Haining
Screenwriter
Brendan Hood
Director of Photography
Stefano Morcaldo
Production Designer
Amanda McArthur
Sound
Clive Copland
Composer
Elia Cmiral
Principal cast
Mike Vogel, Christina Cole, Jamie Murray

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Production Status

Production Company

Stan Winston Studios

Sales Company

Odessey Entertainment

10A James Street
London WC2E 8BT
UK

T +44 (0)20 7520 5610

saldes@odyssey-entertainment.co.uk

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