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The Overcoat

Synopsis

A lonely social outcast gets a glimpse of what life is like for someone popular, and cannot let it go, even in death.
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Details

Year
2017
Type of project
Shorts
Running time
18 mins 26 secs
Format
HD 2k
Director
Patrick Myles
Producer
Kate Turner, Mark Puddle
Co-Producer
Harold Salakianathan, Lynne Turner
Editor
Jo Walker
Screenwriter
Patrick Myles, adapted from Nikolai Gogol's short story
Director of Photography
Tom Turley
Production Designer
Melanie Jane Brookes
Sound
Focal Rhythm
Composer
Alex Baranowski
Principal cast
Jason Watkins, Tim Key, Vicki Pepperdine, Alex Macqueen, Dominic Coleman

Genre

Literary Adaptation Comedy

Categories

Fiction

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

New Division Films

Patrick Myles

The Road Productions

Kate Turner

Still Reeling

Mark Puddle

Sales Company

Shorts International

Simon Young

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