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The Show

Synopsis

Fletcher Dennis, a man of many talents, passports and identities, arrives in Northampton - a strange and haunted town in the heart of England, as dangerous as he is. On a mission to locate a stolen artefact for his menacing client, Fletcher finds himself entangled in a twilight world populated with vampires, sleeping beauties, Voodoo gangsters, noir private eyes, and masked avengers. He quickly sinks into a bizarre and delirious black hole, that is hidden just beneath the surface of this seemingly quiet town. Soon enough Fletcher discovers that dreams and reality have been blurred and there might no longer be a real world to go back to…
Welcome to The Show.
Official Selection SXSW 2020

Details

Year
2020
Type of film
Features
Running time
115 min
Director
Mitch Jenkins
Producer
Thomas Brown, Michael Elliott, Jim Mooney
Executive Producer
Siobhan Hewlett
Editor
Colin Goudie
Screenwriter
Alan Moore
Director of Photography
Simon Tindall
Composer
Andrew Broder, Adam Kidd Drucker, Alan Moore
Principal cast
Tom Burke, Siobhan Hewlett, Ellie Bamber, Sheila Atim, Richard Dillane, Alan Moore

Genre

Drama

Categories

Fiction

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

A Lex Films, EMU Films production with support of BFI, Lipsync

Lex Films

Thomas Brown
68A Rochester Place
London
NW1 9JX

EMU Films

111A Wardour Street
London
W1F 0UJ

Sales Company

Protagonist Pictures

42 - 48 Great Portland Street
London
W1W 7NB

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