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Cal (2013) (DVD) (*)

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Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )

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

Running Time:
89 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (2.35:1)

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

Movie filmed in 2013 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Christian Martin

Written By:
Christian Martin

Actors:
Wayne Virgo ..... Cal
Tom Payne ..... Jason
Emily Corcoran ..... Aunty Jane
Lucy Russell ..... Cath Miller
Daniel Brocklebank ..... Ivan
Bernie Hodges ..... Jounalist - Phil Trope
Simon Cook ..... Oncologist (rumored)
Richard Cambridge ..... Jim
Garry Summers ..... Radio Announcer
Tony Banham ..... Policeman
Deborah Fleming ..... Nurse
Anna Gallagher ..... Ivan's Girlfriend
Tim J. Henley ..... Chef

Synopsis:

Set in the economically depressed austerity Britain of today, Cal is a startlingly powerful drama and the follow-up to the hit 2009 film, Shank. Twenty-year-old Cal returns from France to Britain after receiving news that his mother is ill. His finds his home city of Bristol facing hard economic times brought on by the global economic crisis, with poverty and crime on the rise and rioting and looting almost a nightly occurrence. It's not a warm homecoming as his sick mother remains stubbornly homophobic and wants nothing to do with the now openly gay Cal while his alcoholic and manic Auntie Jane, now living in a run down council house, dulls her stagnation with welfare funded booze and disturbing attempts to sexually seduce her nephew. Navigating his way across this new landscape he meets a young student who needs his help. However his act of kindness brings him into contact with a lawless drug dealing pimp and a race against time to make peace with his mother and get out of town as quickly as possible. An intense tale of a family mired in poverty, angry and lost but still searching for love, respect and acceptance.

Cal returns to Britain after receiving news that his mother is ill in hospital. His finds that his home city is like many across Europe and the world, it's facing hard economic times and fallout from the global economic crisis, rioting and looting almost a nightly occurrence as youth unemployment inexorably rises. His Auntie Jane, who has taken up residence in their run down council house, dulls her stagnation with welfare funded booze and disturbing attempts to sexually gratify herself by trying to seduce him. Navigating his way across this new landscape he meets a young student who needs his helps. However his act of kindness brings him into contact with a lawless drug dealing pimp and a race against time to make peace with his mother and get out of town as quickly as possible.

Cal returns home to a city torn apart by rioting and rising youth unemployment and a mother dying in hospital.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 14 October, 2013.