Project Detail

The Final Curtain

Name: The Final Curtain
Director: Patrick Harkins
Genre: Drama
Released: 2002
Duration: 83 mins

Synopsis

A veteran game show host discovers he is dying and commissions a poverty stricken novelist to pen a celebration of his life. The writer gets sucked into the vicious feud between the corrupt old man and his aggressive young rival.

Pitted against each other in a race for a lucrative American format deal, the battle between the two light entertainment heavyweights spirals out of control - and the writer starts to unravel the dark secrets at the heart of their hatred.

Details

Year: 2002
Type of project: Features
Running time: 83 mins
Format: 35mm Kodak
Director: Patrick Harkins
Producer: Christopher Young
Editor: Justine Wright
Screenwriter: John Hodge
Director of Photography: Oliver Curtis
Sound: Tim Fraser
Composer: Mark Thomas
Principal cast: Peter O'Toole, Adrian Lester, Aiden Gillen

Genre

Drama

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Young Films Ltd

Contact: Christopher Young
Upper Ostaig
Teangue
Isle of Skye
IV44 8RQ
UK

T 00 44 (0)1471 844 444

youngfilms@btinternet.com

Visit Website

www.youngfilms.co.uk

Sales Company

United International Pictures

45 Beadon Road
London
W6 0EG
UK

T 00 44 (0)20 8741 9041

www.uip.com

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