Project Detail

Weekend Retreat

Synopsis

Weekend Retreat is a darkly comic thriller set in an isolated house in the picturesque Cornish countryside. Karen Campbell has brought her husband Duncan away for a “quiet weekend”, a chance to communicate and rebuild their fractured marriage. Duncan plays along but seems distant. During their first night they’re taken hostage by Kevin and Gary Tregidger, estranged brothers desperate for money who thought the house was empty. Gaffer taped back to back the Campbells' marriage is pushed to the limit while the Tregidgers can’t stop bickering long enough to get the job done. As the weekend draws on the stakes are raised as secrets are revealed and body parts are lost.

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Details

Year: 2011
Type of project: Features
Running time: 76 mins
Format: HD
Director: Brett Harvey 1st Feature
Producer: Denzil Monk, Simon Harvey
Editor: Mark Jenkin
Screenwriter: Brett Harvey
Director of Photography: Morgan Lowndes
Production Designer: Iain Andrews
Sound: Derek Norman
Composer: Ian Ross, Benji Bower
Principal cast: Esther Hall, Dominic Coleman, Simon Harvey, Dean Nolan, Dudley Sutton
Line Producer: Jane Hudson
Art Director: Fran Newman
1st AD: Ian Bucknole
Sound Design: Dave Smithers

Genre

Comedy Drama

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

o-region

c/o Hall for Cornwall
Back Quay
Truro
Cornwall, TR1 2LL

contact@o-region.co.uk

Sales Company

Western Light Pictures

7 Weethes Cottages
Penzance
Kernow, UK
TR18 2RP

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