Project Detail

Three Days

Synopsis

London 8am. A letter arrives. Finder's lover is leaving on an early train for Paris. He rushes to the Eurostar terminus but his hopes of catching her are extinguished by missed connections and a tube delay.

'However much you think you're prepared for something, you never are'.

From a Eurostar telephone Finder calls his work-partner, Blind Date Man, only to find a journal belonging to a Canadian actress just arrived in London, Tina 'The Tourist'. The journal contains Tina's money, passport, and a Polaroid of her host and mentor, Wheelchair Woman.

'One moment you're one person, the next you can be someone completely different'.

As Finder is led on a three-day journey of chance and coincidence we meet a host of other eccentric characters whose paths entwine. The compassionate Buddhist Fashion Victim, beautiful Question Mark Woman, her naive admirer Kebab Boy, and the enigmatic Caretaker.

But Finder has still to locate Tina. He takes another look at the Polaroid. It looks like any other tourist snapshot, but with one difference - he recognises himself in the background . . .

. . . of a picture that hasn't been taken. Yet.

'Maybe if we were confused all the time, things would be a lot clearer'.

Details

Year: 1999
Type of project: Features
Running time: 100 mins
Format: 35mm Kodak
Director: Andrew Hill, Ronald Austin 1st Feature
Producer: Dandy Bishop, Sport Torres
Director of Photography: Ronald Austin
Principal cast: Andrew Hill, Caterina Turroni, David Thomas, Nick Makasis, Karen Rose
Executive Screen Writers: Andrew Hill, Ronald Austin

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Austin Hill Film Productions Limited 97 Golborne Road London W10 5NL Tel/Fax: 020 8960 4588

Sales Company

Stranger Than Fiction Golden House 29 Great Pulteney Street London W1R 3DD Tel: 020 7734 5489 Fax: 020 7734 5490 Email: gracarley@aol.com

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Kevin and Cassandra are a married couple who have lost their only daughter Hannah in a freak car accident. They both raised her differently. Kevin had been a traditional parent, Cassandra a permissive one. While Hannah had decided to exhibit her body and mind online, she cut adrift from her father and gravitates towards her mother. Her death drove a wedge between them. Their lounge becomes a battlefield where incendiary words and spiteful things are said. Their marriage is one where opposites no longer attract. Kevin is filled with loathing for his in-laws, his daughter’s boyfriend, himself. Cassandra wears her daughter’s favorite colours with pride and exhibits her painting on the walls. Kevin finds he is powerless in his home and Cassandra mocks the fact that it was her father who bought it. And when he finally leaves it, he leaves Cassandra forever.

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