Summary:
Bafta award-winning writer and director Dominic Savage brings together an all-star cast for his latest project. Colin Firth, Anne-Marie Duff, David Oyelowo and Robert Carlyle star in this major one-off film drama.
Savage's gripping dramas Love And Hate, Out Of Control and Nice Girl are dedicated to tackling contemporary social issues. In this film he addresses social inequality in Britain today through the lives of several characters whose paths collide at a B&B temporarily housing the homeless and dispossessed.
Mark (Colin Firth) is a wealthy city worker whose conscience and guilt about his luxurious lifestyle prompt him to try to help those less fortunate, but it results in turmoil for both himself and others.
Staying at the B&B are Michelle (Anne-Marie Duff), a pregnant mother with a young child who escapes an abusive husband; Nigerian Yemi (David Oyelowo) and his family; and Robert (Robert Carlyle), newly released from prison.
Dominic Savage says: "This is a film about social inequalities, people in desperate circumstances and their intertwining different lives. It's ultimately about people's relationships and the difficulties, dilemmas and moral issues they face."
The stellar cast also includes Emilia Fox, Julia Davis, Megan Dodds, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Nichola Burley, Emily Woof and Pearce Quigley.
Produced by Ruth Caleb and Lucy Hillman
Executive Produced by Richard Klein for BBC and David Thompson at BBC Films
Commissioned for BBC One by Peter Fincham
A one-off television film, which has finished filming (May 2006).
"London" will be shown on BBC1 this fall.
(TV Movie)
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“I’d never done anything like this before, where there’s absolutely no dialogue to begin with. You just jump in cold, which is a bizarre feeling. You’re flying by the seat of your pants all the time.”
Directed by:
Dominic Savage
Writing credits (in alphabetical order):
Dominic Savage
Country: UK
Language: English
Color: Color
“Mark is a sympathetic character at times, but there are other times when his behaviour makes it impossible to feel that about him. In trying to assuage his guilt, he ends of hurting a lot of people. It’s not just about middle-class versus sleeping rough. Mark is as alienated from his life in his own bedroom as he is from life in some underpass. He and Zoë have something in common in that they’re both fugitives. In Zoë’s case it’s more understandable but with Mark it’s much less defined".
"My own view is that Mark is a colossally naive person, and that's a challenge for me. I’m naïve about a lot of things , but not in the areas that he is. I did my soul-searching many years ago. Now , when I see there’s something I feel I can do, I just do it and I know it's inadequate, but I just live with the shortcomings. I throw my hands up and say, 'Yeah, hypocrite! Contradictions? You've got me!' I live quite comfortably alongside my excuses now. I'm not the soul-searcher I once was."
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