The Debt Collector

The Debt Collector (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
English ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
105 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1999 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Anthony Neilson

Written By:
Anthony Neilson

Actors:
Billy Connolly ..... Nickie Dryden
Ken Stott ..... Gary Keltie
Francesca Annis ..... Val Dryden
Iain Robertson ..... Flipper
Annette Crosbie ..... Lana
Alastair Galbraith ..... Colquhoun
Shauna Macdonald ..... Catriona (as Shauna MacDonald)
Sandy Neilson ..... Duncan
Julie Wilson Nimmo ..... Young Girl (as Julie Wilson-Nimmo)
Alan Francis ..... Young man
James Thomson ..... Jobbie
Stephen Duguid ..... Kev (as Steven Duguid)
Matt Costello ..... Policeman (as Matt Costelloe)
Stuart Sinclair Blyth ..... Policeman (as Stuart Blyth)
Gordon Orr ..... Scott

Synopsis:

The first feature of Anthony Neilson, The Debt Collector is a dark contemporary thriller set in Edinburgh. The protagonist, Nick Dryden, has just been released from prison after serving 16 years for murder. In his youth, he was Edinburgh's most notorious and violent criminal, but his rehabilitation has worked wonders. Now he is a free man, married to a successful journalist and admired in the art world for his strikingly disturbing sculptures. But for Gary Keltie, the policeman who arrested him, life has been different. Depressed by the futility of his job and alone in the world except for his aging mother, he resents Dryden's new-found success and vows to sabotage it. There is one more person who is also obsessed by Dryden: the seriously disturbed adolescent gangster Flipper, although his reasons are not hatred but hero worship. The three men are on a collision course in this modern Scottish myth which exposes the extremes of human nature.

Ex-loan shark and convicted murderer Dryden seems to have paid his debt to society. He has served his sentence in one of Britain's toughest prisons. Eighteen years later he is happily married and is hailed as a talented sculptor by the art world. Yet, Keltie, the policeman responsible for his conviction cannot accept Dryden's rehabilitation and embarks on a campaign to ensure his violent crimes are not forgotten or forgiven.

Drama. A dark contemporary thriller set in Edinburgh. Nickie Dryden is an ex-convict and debt collector once jailed for murder. Now leading a respectable life, he is still tormented and humiliated by Keltie, the policeman who succeeded in convicting him.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 03 June, 2009.

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