Projects matching: David Mackenzie

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Set over the historic year when Robert the Bruce, the great 14th Century Scottish king, fought to regain control of his country.
A true David and Goliath story: Having been crowned King of Scots, and then defeated in a surprise attack and made an 'outlaw' by the English King and his occupying forces, the 'Outlaw King' used cunning and bravery to repel and defeat the much larger and better equipped occupying English army.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2018 - Gala Presentations - World premiere

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A troubled and explosively violent teenager is transferred to adult prison where he finally meets his match - a man who also happens to be his father.

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The dilapidated suburbia of Edenstown casts a shadow over Tommy Cowley’s life. Trapped there by his agoraphobia since his wife was fatally attacked by twisted feral children, he now finds himself terrorized by the same mysterious hooded gang, who seem intent on taking his baby daughter.

Torn between the help of an understanding nurse and a vigilante priest, he discovers that to be free of his fears, he must finally face the demons of his past and enter the one place that he fears the most...the abandoned tower block known as the "Citadel".

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A chef and a scientist fall in love as an epidemic begins to rob people of their sensory perceptions.

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Shot on location at the world famous music festival 'T in the Park', American pop star Adam, and minor British rock chick Morello, are playing at the same music festival. The only other thing they have in common is their mastery of sarcastic wisecracks so when they meet backstage, the sparks inevitably fly. As their childish spat escalates, a mischievous preacher, who happens to be passing by, handcuffs them together as punishment, before disappearing in to the crowd with the only key.

All attempts to break free are thwarted as the prospect of performing on stage in handcuffs together becomes a reality, never mind the prospect of having to go to sleep side by side later that night.

Respective band mates and romantic partners are caught in the crossfire but can only look on as Adam and Morello begin to realise there is no escape.

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Hallam's talent for spying on people reveals his darkest fears - and his most peculiar desires. Driven to expose the true cause of his mother's death, he instead finds himself searching the rooftops of the city of Edinburgh for love.
 
 

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In the late 1950s, when her husband Max (Hugh Bonneville) takes up his post as deputy director of a remote psychiatric hospital, Stella Raphael (Natasha Richardson) and her young son, Charlie (Augustus Jeremiah Lewis) are brought to live on the grounds of the asylum.  Stella is soon drawn to charismatic inmate Edgar Stark (Marton Csokas). Undeterred by the warnings from her husband's colleague, Dr Cleave (Ian McKellen), Stella is prepared to risk everything to be with Edgar. Their passionate affair escalates as obsession begins to threaten Stella's love, her sanity and her very life.

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Set in a steamy Glasgow of the early 1950s, the film focuses on the existential crisis of Joe (Ewan McGregor), a rootless young drifter who finds work on a barge owned by the down-to-earth Les (Peter Mullan) and his enigmatic wife Ella (Tilda Swinton). One afternoon Joe and Les happen upon a corpse of a young woman floating in the water. Accident? Suicide? Murder?

As the police investigate the case and a suspect is arrested, it becomes evident that Joe knows more about the drowned woman than he is letting on. Meanwhile, against the background of this mysterious death and the 'murder' investigation, Joe and Ella embark on an intimate and passionate affair.
 
Tim Cumming, writing in The Guardian, 8 August 2003:
Alexander Trocchi was the smack-addled icon of beat literature, whose writings have been eclipsed by a lurid life of porn, pimping and dissolution in New York, Paris and London. But with a new film out adapted from his novel Young Adam, the Glasgow-born writer's life and work are ripe for re-evaluation.

 
 

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Charlie is on a stupid mission of revenge against the Popstar who stole his wife.

Vincente is on the run, trying to get away from the country to escape a contract castration ordered by the man who caught him in bed with his wife.

Charlie is probably the only person mad enough to give Vincente a lift to the remote Scottish airfield where he plans to fly to Spain.

From now on, little is certain as these two lost souls get more lost on their journey to their own private wilderness.

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Marcie's Dowry is an explosive black comedy.



  



Gus and Molly have spent all their money on their only daughter Marcie. Now she's getting married and somebody's going to have to pay . . .

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Andy and Rachel are a young couple of artists who are heavily in debt to their drug supplier. After a long weekend of partying, Rachel finds two men on her doorstep. Unsure of their identity, she lets them inside and soon realises her mistake.