Projects matching: Tom Harper

Synopsis

Set in 1862, the high-flying tale of pilot Amelia Wren, a wealthy young widow, and James Glaisher, an ambitious scientist as they mount a balloon expedition to fly higher than anyone in history. This is a journey to the very edge of existence, where the air is thin and the chances of survival are slim. As their perilous ascent reveals their true selves, this unlikely pair discover things about each other - and themselves - that help them find their place in the world they have left behind.
Official Selection Telluride Film Festival 2019 - World premiere
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2019 - Gala Presentations
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Headline Gala

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Rose-Lynn Harlan is bursting with raw talent, charisma and cheek. Fresh out of jail and with two young kids, all she wants is to get out of Glasgow and make it as a country singer. Her mum Marion has had a bellyful of Rose-Lynn’s Nashville nonsense. Forced to take responsibility, Rose-Lynn gets a cleaning job, only to find an unlikely champion in the middle-class lady of the house.
A comedy-drama about mothers and daughters, dreams and reality and three chords and the truth.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2018 - Special Presentations - World premiere
Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2019 - Viewpoints

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40 years after the first haunting at Eel Marsh House, a group of children evacuated from WWII London arrive, awakening the house's darkest inhabitant.

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War Book is a chilling chamber-piece set in the political back-rooms of London, depicting the government’s struggle to decide an appropriate course of action in light of a devastating nuclear attack…
London Film Festival 2014 - World premiere

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A mysterious femme fatale asks an unwitting stranger to mind her handbag. She disappears.

Moments later, he receives a mysterious phone call. If he wants to stay alive, he has to follow her instructions to the letter - A simple matter of murder.

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David and Emily are inseparable best friends who have lived all their life on a caravan park. When David learns that Emily is being forced to move away, he agrees to help her hide out in a remote cave on the coast. But their innocent secret soon becomes complicated, as David watches the police start to close in on his missing friend. When the real reason Emily wants to escape comes to light, David's world is shattered. Swept up in a situation out of his control, and with his feelings for his best friend growing stranger by the day, David is forced to take action.

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A class of teenage schoolboys are oblivious to their teacher’s attempts to question them about the wider world. But they are about to have a lesson they will never forget and one that will change their lives forever.

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A casual encounter with a stranger brings our hero, Adam, to the attention of powerful, unseen forces. They take away his job as an IT teacher and follow his every move. Adam does not know it but the stranger he met in a bar planted evidence of an affair with a gay Royal. Forced to go on the run, Adam turns to the only two people he thinks he can trust: his disapproving father and a female reporter, Amy.

Amy was Adam's teenage girlfriend, and he broke her heart when he told her he was gay. With few resources, and an increasingly desperate and murderous adversary, Adam has to dig deep and become a hero as he searches for the truth.


 

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A gang of inner-city kids have discovered a dark new sport - urban fox-hunting.
 
Watch on BBC Film Network.

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Nathan has been travelling for nine months following university. He returns home to the depths of Devon with his beautiful girlfriend, Chrissie, with whom he is obviously in love. However, although his return is eagerly anticipated by his class-conscious family (and particularly father), what they do not know is that Chrissie is black. (Past Present Future) Imperfect explores the clash between new liberal Britain and old-England, where beauty is only skin deep.
 
This is the second feature from Bristol-based writer/producer Guy de Beaujeu (Living in Hope). He has teamed up with director Roger Thorp to create a dark family drama that will amuse and distress in equal measure. (Past Present Future) Imperfect  is a muti-layered film that stars a selection of the best of British acting talent.

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A naive young poet pays a visit to his intemperate mentor, with surprising and amusing results.

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Posh is a fresher at Cabot University and on the same corridor in Hope Hall as Liam, Harry, Animal and Footsie. Liam is Irish, in love with Reena and wants to go home. Footsie is the quiet northerner who's at university to work. Harry's a cockney who wishes he wasn't. Animal's a sports fanatic proving himself to an over-competitive dad. And Posh is a public schoolboy who loves life but can't seem to love anyone.

It's fresher's week and Posh wants to chase girls and hang out with chinless public school wasters. Until he knocks down Animal while driving Footsie to a party. At the hospital he meets Liam and Harry and an unexpected friendship begins.

Posh lusts after Michaela, who fancies Liam, who hardly notices. Ginny is in love with Posh who definitely doesn't notice.

Posh invites the lads to his aunt's house on the moor. Animal turns it down to fulfil his dream of playing in the universtiy rugby team. But he isn't picked so he comes too, setting in motion events that force the lads, and Posh especially, to re-evaluate life and love.

And of course, there's a very tall bridge to jump off.