Projects matching: Steven Woodcock

Synopsis

A Yorkshire milltown in 1957. Ellen Hardy is unhappily married but is close to her ten year old son, Victor. The family has recently moved house and Victor has started at a new school where Ellen has become friendly with his teacher, Kathy Thompson, who is keen to encourage him at art.
 
As the friendship between the two women grows, Ellen's millworker husband, Hardy, feels increasingly alienated at home. Meanwhile, Ellen's sister Alice emigrates to Australia to start a new life and soon the Hardys go on a disastrous seaside holiday.
 
Will Ellen - torn between her duties as a wife and mother and a fear of admitting her feelings for Kathy - also have the courage to break free emotionally and follow her destiny when she returns home?
 
A homage to classic British films such as Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and This Sporting Life, Between Two Women is the first feature from North Country Pictures - committed to bringing to an international audience top quality stories that reflect the history, culture, and literature of the Pennine region past, present, and even future.
 
"A poignant, refreshingly contemporary tale of love across the class barrier" - Radio Times.
 
"The script, acting, and directing are top notch. If this film had been produced in Hollywood,  it would be synonymous with the word Oscar" - Toronto Free Press.
 
"The bleak industrial cities in the north of England have been the settings of many a gritty drama. With Between Two Women writer-director Steven Woodcock has made a notably lyrical film amid a grim setting" - Los Angeles Times.

Synopsis

A pacy adaptation of the best-selling novel by John Braine, who made his name with the classic Room At The Top. The book changed the course of British literature and was made into a highly-successful film that did much the same for the British film industry.
 
An industrial town in Yorkshire during the mid-1960s.
 
Vincent Dungarven's mother wants him to be a Roman Catholic priest and he half thinks that he has the vocation. He is a reserved young man, a schoolmaster, and at thirty has never been in love with a woman. When he does fall in love, he falls passionately for Laura, who is not only erotically attractive but intelligent, open, and warm - everything he has longed for but never found.

Vincent's brother Matthew has a drink problem and his wife Maureen is frustrated and unhappy. When Vincent brings Matthew home drunk one night after they have been out to the pub, he resists Maureen's sexual provocation.
 
As the twists of fate intensify and his dilemma grows, Vincent finds living with his mother intolerable. When it is too late ever to recover his old detachment, he discovers that unless he is prepared to break away from his church, he cannot cross the emotional barrier that stands between Laura and himself. As the film reaches an emotionally-charged climax, he finds his world has been shaken to its foundation in the pursuit of passionate love and another man's life destroyed so that he can get it.
 
Second feature from North Country Pictures, a Yorkshire/ Lancashire based production company committed to resurrecting classical methods of storytelling and bringing to an international audience top quality stories that reflect the history, culture, and literature of the Pennine region past, present, and even future.