Project Detail

The Parole Officer

Synopsis

The Parole Officer is a comedy starring Steve Coogan as an honest but inept probation officer who moves from a small northern town to a big city where he witnesses a serious crime and is framed for murder. The only way he can prove his innocence is to break into a bank vault where the crucial piece of evidence is stored. He goes back to his home town to persuade three of his former clients to return to lives of crime and help him rob the bank.

Details

Year: 2001
Type of project: Features
Running time: 90 – 110 mins
Format: 35mm Kodak
Director: John Duican
Producer: Duncan Kenworthy, Andrew MacDonald, Callum McDougall
Editor: David Freeman
Screenwriter: Steve Coogan, Henry Normal
Director of Photography: John Daly
Sound: John Midgley (Production), Glenn Freemantle (Sound Editing)
Principal cast: Steve Coogan, Lena Headey, Stephen Dillane, Om Puri, Steve Waddington, Ben Miller, Emma Williams

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Parole Productions Ltd.

Contact: Callum McDougall
75/77 Margaret Street
London W1W 8BH
UK

Sales Company

DNA Films (Financier)

Contact: Jenny Jones
75/77 Margaret Street
London W1W 8BH
UK

T 020 7291 8010

jenny.jones@dnafilms.com

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www.dnafilms.com

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