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Charlie Casanova (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )

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

Running Time:
90 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Behind the scenes
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Interactive Menu
Making Of
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2010 and produced in:
Ireland ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Terry McMahon

Written By:
Terry McMahon

Actors:
Emmett Scanlan ..... Charlie Casanova
Leigh Arnold ..... Una
Damien Hannaway ..... Kevin
Thomas Farrell ..... Mick
Ruth McIntyre ..... Soairse
Anthony Murphy ..... Donald
Valeria Bandino ..... Linda
Johnny Elliott ..... Jimmy
Tommy O'Neil ..... Charlie's father
Glenn McMahon ..... Officer Mullingar
Anouck Sablayrolles ..... Masseuse

Synopsis:

Charlie Barnum has it all, the perfect wife, the property portfolio and the loyalty of his best friend. The fact that Charlie requires Viagra to have sex with his wife, is losing his properties, and has seduced his best friend's wife, means nothing to Charlie, because Charlie is living on dangerously borrowed time. An innocent working class girl is killed in a hit and run, and, as the blood pours from her injuries, Charlie, the man who knocked her down, consults his deck of playing cards and chooses to ignore any responsibility for all future deeds letting the cards decide his fate.

Poster boy for the ruling class, Charlie Barnum has it all, the perfect wife, the property portfolio and the loyalty of his best friend. The fact that Charlie requires Viagra to have sex with his wife, is losing his properties, and has seduced his best friend's wife, means nothing to Charlie, because Charlie is living on dangerously borrowed time. An innocent working class girl is killed in a hit and run, and, as the blood pours from her injuries, Charlie, the man who knocked her down, consults his deck of playing cards and chooses to abdicate responsibility for all future deeds. Lies become truths, reality becomes fantasy, and, as Charlie embroils the three comfortable couples in the ugly excesses and sanctimonious prejudices of his new found power, they discover some deeply disturbing truths about each other. Employing dangerously subversive, provocatively dark, and satirically disturbing humor, Charlie Casanova re-imagines Billy Liar and Walter Mitty as a sickeningly compelling anti-hero, delving deep into the psychologically disturbing, shallowly suicidal, degenerately greedy needs of a group of moneyed people who had it all, threw it all away, then decided to blame the entire working class.

A ruling class sociopath kills a working class girl in a hit and run and uses a deck of playing cards to determine his fate.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 12 November, 2012.