Publisher: Vendetta Films Run time: 89mins Year: 2008 Release date: 12/11/2009 RRP:$ 19.99$ 14.99
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An actor hard on his luck ends up with a large number of dead bodies on his hands.
Together with his hilarious friend they hatch a genius plan of treating their predicament like a film scenario and try to rewrite the day. As the body count mounts, they pitch ideas back and forth desperately searching for a way out.
Aspiring actor Mark (Mark Doherty, also the film's screenwriter) has pretty much hit rock bottom. He has just endured yet another fruitless audition, and his girlfriend Sally (Amy Huberman) is about to discover that, due to his penury, he has not been paying the rent for several months. Sally can't understand why their landlord, Jack (Keith Allen), doesn't do the very long list of repairs required to make their increasingly ramshackle apartment more habitable. Mark knows that Sally will ask Jack as soon as she sees him, and that Jack will tell her the truth. This also means that their little cobbled-together family, which includes Mark's paralyzed brother David (David Doherty) and their dog Jersey, will be out on the street.
As he does with all things, Mark confides in his best friend and upstairs neighbour Pierce (Dylan Moran of Black Books, and Shaun of the Dead), another shiftless aspirant who doesn't have two nickels. Pierce does, however, have a more than passing affection for time spent in the pub. The only thing he has to offer Mark is yet another round of inflated, dreamy rhetoric about their limitless yet unrecognized talent.
Mark's fate takes an even harsher turn for the worse. A series of completely unforeseen events, all of which take place over the course of one dreadful day, moves the film into a completely new realm. Reeling from these events, Mark calls on Pierce for help, and soon two of the most hapless, misguided characters onscreen this year set off to solve their myriad problems....
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