Project Detail

Toby the Square Boy

Synopsis

He's wooden, he's square, and he just doesn't fit in. What's more Toby the Square Boy seems to have trouble remembering where he lives, what would you do if he knocked at your front door and called you 'Daddy'? Should life for a seven year old boy really be this difficult?

Details

Year: 2000
Type of project: Shorts
Running time: 5 mins
Format: 16mm Kodak
Director: Gary Hawkins
Producer: Phil Davies
Editor: Peter Corley
Director of Photography: Sam James
Composer: Vyv Hope-Scott, Rick Cassman

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Creative Film Productions 68 Conway Road London N14 7BE Tel: 44 (0)181 447 8187 Fax: 44 (0)181 886 3054 phil@creativefilm.co.uk

Sales Company

Channel 4 International 124 Horseferry Road London SW1P 2TX Tel: 44 (0)171 391 4444

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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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