Directed by Ben Wheatley
Mike Leigh meets The Sopranos in this extraordinary family crime drama, shot in eight days largely in one location. Fresh out of jail, Bill (Robert Hill) is obsessed with finding out who snitched on him. His son, Karl (Robin Hill), also just released, is similarly concerned but has other things on his mind—namely, what to do about his pregnant girlfriend. Bill, eager to ferret out the informer, lays out a series of traps and ruses for his associates—that is, when he’s not singing old Fairport Convention songs while accompanying himself on guitar. Director Ben Wheatley (BBC’s The Wrong Door) makes a powerful feature-film debut, creating an astonishing sense of normalcy laced with jet-black humor. A Magnet release.
“Cleverly channeling gangster tropes through a British kitchen-sink soap opera…Ben Wheatley has concocted a nifty black comedy…This perverse genre-twister cold prove a summer sleeper.” –Variety
2009. Great Britain. 89 min.
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ABOUT THE DIRECTOR:
Ben Wheatley has spent the last ten years honing his comedy writing in the bear pit of the Internet, where, via his website MrandMrsWheatley, his animations, films, cartoons, comic strips, and viral ads have garnered an international audience. In the last few years Ben has directed ads for major brands, earning him Gold, Silver, and Bronze Lions at the Cannes Advertising Festival, among other awards. He has directed two acclaimed comedy series—Modern Toss and, for BBC3, the BAFTA-nominated The Wrong Door—and will soon begin directing his second series of the hugely popular BBC sitcom Ideal. Down Terrace is his feature debut.
