NOT AFRAID, NOT AFRAID
synopsis
Left by her husband of 25 years and convinced she is dying of cancer, Paula decides to embark on an obsessive quest: first poisoning her wayward husband and then killing herself! Her Downs Syndrome grandson, Thomas, decides to accompany her and the film charts their growing friendship with caustic humour and unsentimental insights as they take off on a belligerent, eventful and often comical trip.
original title: | NOT AFRAID, NOT AFRAID |
country: | Ireland, Germany |
sales agent: | Capitol Films |
year: | 2001 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Annette Carducci |
film run: | 139' |
screenplay: | Annette Carducci, Barry Devlin |
cast: | Dianne Wiest, Jack Davenport, Miriam Margoyles |
cinematography by: | Seamus Deasy |
film editing: | Tanja Schmidbauer |
art director: | Humphrey Jaeger |
music: | Gabriel Yared |
producer: | Howard Gibbins, Morgan O'Sullivan, James Flynn |
production: | World 2000 Entertainment Ltd, Cinerenta |