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Director: Suri Krishnamma
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From Time Out Film Guide
A Britflick with a difference - and timely, given its concern with the angry, grief-stricken difficulties of finding anchorage in a world suddenly altered by major loss. When teenagers Jake (Potts) and Steven (Barry) wake up in an ethereal foreign ward as the only survivors of a school skiing trip disaster, they resolve to cheat fate and commit suicide in 12 months, after completing a series of tasks compiled from the video-filmed wishes of their dead friends. These are generally the black-humoured stuff of adolescent aspiration, but the pair soon raise the stakes, which puts them increasingly at odds with their counsellor and their families. It's an effective move to take a familiar youth mindset - the rebellious, death-inspired desire for liberation from conventional codes of behaviour - and situate it in a narrative where it's believably sustained as a response to crisis. But, wanting to play both as heightened realism and as parable, the film's texture is uneven and its tone is uncertain.Author: GE
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- Posted on Jan 02 2008 22:45 I loved this movie. Actors are great, the theme is great, and love Bobby Barry:)
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Cast & crew
Director: Suri Krishnamma
Producer: Stephen Cleary, Simon Channing-Williams
Cast: Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Anastasia Hille, Andrew Lee Potts, Bobby Barry, Michael Kitchen, Sue Johnston, Ralph Brown, Jacqueline Bisset, Gregg Prentice full cast
Duration: 101 mins
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