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Set against the backdrop of the Celtic Tiger economy 'Headrush' is a quirky, contemporary, black caper / crime comedy about two young guys, Charlie and T-Bag, who hope to solve all their problems by working for a notorious Underworld Criminal, The Uncle.
Down on his luck Charlie has been kicked off the dole, had his electricity cut off, and been dumped by his girlfriend Vicky. Despite claiming to be an expert on women, his best friend T-Bag has never had a girlfriend and the boys are convinced only money will change their depressing situation.
The boys hear through their dealer Blowback that The Uncle is looking for new drug mules, so Charlie conceives an elaborate scam to smuggle a consignment of Cocaine back from Amsterdam. They meet The Uncle's nephew Razor Rupert and convince him that they're up for the job. As they lay their plans, each one egging the other on, each one refusing to admit to any fear, a series of comic coincidences begin to unravel their carefully laid plans. Hey, they're stoners ! What do you expect ?
'Headrush' is a story about frustration, fear, and friendship. Charlie is a lost soul in a society riddled with corruption, political distrust and a preoccupation with making money. Trying to cope with problems he brings on himself, he seems on an inevitable slide that takes him deeper and deeper into a world with fatal consequences. It's the fight of his life. It's a Headrush.
CAST DETAILS : Charlie: Wuzza Conlon. T-Bag: Gavin Kelty. Vicky Nobel: Laura Pyper. The Uncle: Steven Berkoff. Malcom Nobel: Tom Hickey. Mabel Nobel: Maire O'Neill. Razor Rupert: Pat Kinevane. Det. O'Donoghue: Mick Nolan. Det. Walsh: Mark Doherty. The Yank: Huey Morgan. Det. Insp. Dunne: Donncha Crowley. Blowback: BP Fallon.
CREW DETAILS : Director: Shimmy Marcus. Producer: Edwina Forkin. Co-Producers: Christine Alderson & Marc Bary. Exec. Producers: Tristan Orpen Lynch & Brendan McCarthy. Cinematography: Owen McPolin. Editor: Joe Marcus. Writer: Shimmy Marcus. Music: Fun Lovin' Criminals & Adam Lynch. Casting Director: Dorothy MacGabhann. Location: Ireland & Holland. Format: 35mm. Running Time: 85mins. Year Made: 2003.
SALES COMPANYS : Park Entertainment
WEBSITE : www.headrushthemovie.com
'SUGAR' is an existential psychodrama fusing suspense scenario
with surreal delusion. The film plays one woman's sanity, something in
the wall, and audience assumptions against eachother to create a nightmare
journey into the darker regions of the mind.
A
woman arrives in a strange city. She knows no one and brings with her
only what she can carry. She moves into a small storefront apartment that
she has rented sight unseen. The place is full of the previous occupants
possessions. They carry the sense of a sad and introverted existence.
As she picks through his stuff, she listens to the answering machine.
It is full of messages from people looking for the previous tenant - all
of whom feel he has let them down in some way.
She clears the place out and starts to settle in. As the days pass she
feels increasingly that she is being watched and a conviction grows in
her that the old tenant is still there, living behind the wall. Her existence
is isolated and without external points of reference, so she distrusts
herself, believeing that it is all in her head. However, evidence of another's
presence accumulates. It is banal that she cannot attribute it to her
own infirmity. Doubt grows and with it anger. She feels duped and resolves
to make a test.
She poisons the sugar and makes a pudding. The pudding disappears and groans begin to come from the wall. Determined to enjoy this, she dresses up and starts to drink. As the screams grow louder, revenge turns to nightmare as she is forced to witness the consequences of her actions. By the morning all is quiet. Something is finished and life tentatively begins again. However, the apartment and its contents develop a physical malignancy. She struggles unsuccessfully with this and her perspective starts to unravel. Then the moans begin again. Crazed and haunted, unable to distinguish between the interior and exterior, she is driven into a spiralling frenzy of madness. She takes refuge in the fridge and her mind twists ever inward as consciousness fragments.
The
apartment is empty. Time has passed. The fridge door slowly opens and
she crawls with grim intent across the floor. She opens up the heating
vent and reaches beneath the floor. Slowly a corpse is revealed. It is
her body. After an initial wave of horror she starts to take care of the
body. An epiphanal period ensues as she communes with her dead self. This
slowly come to an end as the body decays beyond reprieve. She mourns and
makes a decision. Dressed and ready to leave, she lays out her suitcase.
From the fridge she takes her body, packs it into the case, and leaves.
At the beach, she drags the case across the sand. Together they wade out
into the water and disappear beneath the waves.
CAST DETAILS : Woman: Samara
Golden Anthony: Nelson Nelson
CREW DETAILS : Directors &
Producers: Paddy Jolley and Reynold Reynolds. Co-Producer: Edwina
Forkin
Writer: Paddy Jolley, Reynold Reynolds, Samara Golden. Additional
Camera: Rebecca Trost. Location: New York. Format: Super
8 and 16mm. Running Time: 85mins. Year Made: 2004.
SALES COMPANYS : Zanzibar
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