MIDDLETOWN
by Brian Kirk
synopsis
Middletown is the puritanical village that time forgot. Jim and Caroline are trapped there by Jim’s sense of duty to his father, a sick and cantankerous old man who refuses to accept his illness. Something has to change… And it does. Jim’s brother, now Reverend Gabriel Hunter, returns after many years to bring the people back to God. His zeal totally disrupts the balance in Middletown, tearing asunder the existing familial harmony. A battle ensues between Jim and Gabriel that threatens to destroy everything each stands for and engulfing all of Middletown in a conflict with terrible consequences.
international title: | Middletown |
original title: | Middletown |
country: | Ireland, United Kingdom |
sales agent: | The Film Sales Company (US) |
year: | 2006 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Brian Kirk |
film run: | 90' |
screenplay: | Daragh Carville |
cast: | Matthew Macfadyen, Daniel Mays, Eva Birthistle, Gerard McSorley |
cinematography by: | Adam Suschitzky |
film editing: | Tim Murrell |
art director: | Ashleigh Jeffers |
music: | Debbie Wiseman |
producer: | Mark Byrne, Michael Casey |
production: | Green Park Films |
backing: | Irish Film Board, NIFTC |
distributor: | Eclipse Pictures Limited |