Poppy Shakespeare - DaaVeeDee

Poppy Shakespeare (DVD) (*)

Out of Stock

Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
87 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2008 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Benjamin Ross

Written By:
Sarah Williams
Clare Allan

Actors:
Naomie Harris ..... Poppy Shakespeare
Anna Maxwell Martin ..... N
Rest of cast listed alphabetically: ..... Wesley
Kolade Agboke ..... Zubin
Josef Altin ..... Rosetta
Claire Benedict ..... Security Sharon
Nicholas Beveney ..... Candid
Janine Birkett ..... Tina
Marie Critchley ..... Tony
Jonathan Cullen ..... Dawn
Michelle Dockery ..... Banker Bill
Darrell D'Silva ..... Male Nurse
Gerard Fletcher ..... Verna
Kerry Godliman ..... Secretary
Anne Hornby ..... Peter Flea
Simon Kunz

Synopsis:

Adapted from the best-selling novel by author Clare Allan, director Benjamin Ross' made for television drama follows the unlikely friendship between a psychiatric patient who lives to sponge off the system, and the newly arrived patient who causes her to question everything she ever thought she knew. N (Anna Maxwell Martin) has spent the last thirteen years living in a North London psychiatric ward, and she'd do it all over again if given the opportunity. She's made it her mission in life never to be released, and she's willing to do whatever it takes to remain institutionalized for life. Her life is changed forever with the sudden appearance of a new patient named Poppy Shakespeare (Naomie Harris), an elegant yet temperamental woman who insists that she isn't insane. But while N can't quite understand Poppy's reasons for wanting to escape the mental ward, she's more than happy to help her new friend try. The only problem now is that in order for Poppy to qualify for release, N must help prove that she's not insane. . . but how does one go about proving their sanity when in order to do so they must first appear to be mad? ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

Drama set on the psychiatric ward in a North London day hospital. N, who has been an inmate of the hospital for some thirteen years, and desperate to stay there and not go back out in to the world, befriends a new arrival, Poppy. Poppy is adamant there is nothing wrong with her, but in order to prove she is sane and so 'escape' she must first pretend to be mad.

About patients in a North London psychiatric hospital. Poppy, flamboyant and certain of her sanity, is given to 'N' to mentor. 'N' is a veteran, self-described 'dribbler' who long ago resigned herself to life in an institution and to medication. Hatching a plan for Poppy's escape, they form an unlikely friendship.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 11 November, 2010.