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Puritan (DVD) (*)

$20.99

Screened, competed or awarded at:
Berlin International Film Festival
Montreal World Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )

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

Running Time:
92 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Behind the scenes
Commentary
Deleted Scenes
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2005 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Hadi Hajaig

Written By:
Hadi Hajaig

Actors:
Nick Moran ..... Simon Puritan
Georgina Rylance ..... Ann Bridges
Pete Hodge ..... Jonathan Grey
David Soul ..... Eric Bridges
Ralph Brown ..... Mickey Conway
Steven Atholl ..... The Rock Star
Catherine Balavage ..... Conference women
Paul Bigley ..... Priest
Amanda Connors ..... Office Worker
Kirsty Dillon ..... Barmaid
Mark Gilvary ..... Aleister Crowley
Camilla Heaney ..... Richard's wife
Robin Hellier ..... Dr. Miles
Bernard Kay ..... The old man
Jennifer Lim ..... Rockstar's girlfriend
David Papava ..... Emile the Gardener
Peter Sullivan ..... Richard
Tony Wadham ..... Detective Rushton
Hannah Watkins ..... Lucy
John Webber ..... Conran

Synopsis:

The title of writer-director Hadi Hajaig's Byzantine occultly thriller Puritan refers to Simon Puritan (Nick Moran), a phony London clairvoyant and the inhabitant of an oddball 17th-century estate once occupied by Satanist Aleister Crowley -- allegedly a site of visitation for numerous apparitions over the centuries. As a heavy drinker, Puritan spends his days staging faux psychic readings. When he imbibes a bit too much alcohol and grows intoxicated, Puritan nearly slips and falls beneath a train, but a deformed stranger, Jonathan Grey, calls out to save him at the last moment. Through Jonathan, Puritan becomes acquainted with Ann, a gorgeous young woman unhappily married to a wealthy American, Eric Bridges (Starsky & Hutch's David Soul); Simon and Ann lapse into a torrid affair, but Ann's resolve to leave her husband for Simon leads to Eric's accidental death -- and the suggestion that Ann may be double-crossing Simon. To complicate matters, Simon is then badly disfigured, and mysteriously hurtled back in time to encounter a number of the strange occultly events that have plagued his house.

An old house in London on a bitterly cold night. In the house, a crowd of people are gathered, young and old, their rapt attention fixed on one man, Simon Puritan, a medium. A man who talks with the dead. Simon picks a husband and wife in the crowd and tells the husband that their deceased daughter is in the room with them. The husband is in shock as Simon tells him things that only he and his wife could know, delivering the husband a message from his daughter - a message of hope and love from the afterlife. The husband is a changed man; the pain in his eyes has vanished.

Supernatural thriller. Simon Puritan makes ends meet as a fake medium when a mysterious young woman enters his life and everything changes.

This product was added to our catalog on Saturday 16 May, 2009.