Danny Dyer, Jake Canuso, James Lance

Eight haunted people meet and fall apart - looking for redemption in each other. Jim is throwing watermelons off his office roof. He's testing the effect for a possible suicide. But then there is Sue ...( read more  read more... )on an adjacent roof about to jump herself. They meet, delay their departure and set off searching for other ways out than down. Sue's ex-boyfriend, Dean, is struggling with his creativity. His paintings are getting panned and his poetry ripped apart. He needs a muse - and who better than Gina, the experimental prostitute with dodgy legs who lives next door. However, Dean soon finds out that Gina never does anything for free. After a short fling with Dean, Olly is lost in a world of sexual confusion when forced to look after his deaf-mute brother Chris for the day. Olly discovers that not only does Chris has gay feelings too, but is more comfortable with them than he is. They embark on a searing quest through Soho's gay community to help Chris loose his virginity. But no-one has more to hide than oldest brother Pete. He's being stalked by Carol, a timid old lady looking for her son - a guy Pete knew from his violent drug days. Fearfully Pete opens his frozen heart to Carol and they begin a treacherous journey to the woods to find her lost son. By the end, each lost soul finds a solution in darkness or in light. Connections are made or missed and longed-for families brought together for a moment of hope.

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Unrated, 1 hr. 40 min.

Directed by: Steve Kelly

Release Date: February 11, 2009

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  • November 28, 2009
    now why does my rating differ from everybody else's? maybe because i'm a negative fuck. doesn't anybody else see the humour in a hooker without legs? a sexually obsessed guy that can't get it up? or a woman humping a coma patient to get up the duff? damn, life is humour
  • November 24, 2009
    I really don't know what to say about this film. It lacked everything, especially a point to the film! The performances were ok, nothingless than expected from Danny Dyer but still good performances. The film itself was trying to connect everyone to each which you could work out ...( read more)on your own but it wasn't exactly "Done Well". Forgettable film.
  • September 20, 2009
    could have been better with the cast it had
  • July 24, 2009
    This I thought was a very poor film. The stories didnt link well. It had a good cast Tamer, Danny and ray but that didnt help. Seeing it had this lot in it I thought it would be good. If your going to get this because its got these people in it then its not worth it. Oh well all ...( read more)actors have to at least make one bad film in their career.
  • June 26, 2009
    a moody brit drama following 3 london tales, danny dyer is okay in his story, and tamer hassn does better work, in some nice scenes of a man and a women, meeting under dificult circumstances
  • June 17, 2009
    I'm a big fan of the British film industry but this has knocked it back 30 years. Brilliant cast but no real script and poor story lines!!
  • May 18, 2009
    Tamer Hassan is brill in a dark twisted flick.

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