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Colin is in agony, shattered by his wife’s infidelity, so his friends kidnap the wife's lover so he can have his revenge.
2009 · Directed by Malcolm Venville · 95 min · Drama · Crime · Screenplay in the scene database · 2 frames
Tagline
The Measure Of Revenge
Plot
Colin Diamond is a successful car salesman who, after discovering his wife Liz is having an affair, has an emotional breakdown. His friends convince him to kidnap his wife's lover and then encourage him to torture and kill him.
Diamond's partners in crime are suave homosexual gambler Meredith, crotchety and bigoted Old Man Peanut, the down-to-earth Archie and the combustible Mal, who by turns encourage Colin's lust for revenge and sympathise with his situation, and conspire to emotionally and mentally torture Liz's new boyfriend, Loverboy, a "Frog" waiter, first by locking him in a cupboard and threatening him, and then tying him up and subjecting him to humiliating verbal and physical assault.
Parts of the story occur in flashback, with Colin discovering Liz's infidelity and the after-effects of it, which then affect the present, in which he tries to come to terms with the shame and torment that this brings to him. Parts of the story also appear to happen inside Colin's mind, with his attempt to reconcile with himself, using his friends as representations of his own turmoil, and his resolving of the situation.
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Crew
- Screenplay: David Scinto, Louis Mellis
- Cinematography: Daniel Landin
- Edited by: Rick Russell
- Music: Angelo Badalamenti
- Production design: John Stevenson
- Produced by: Steve Golin, Richard Brown, Peter Heslop
Cast
- Ray Winstone as Colin Diamond
- John Hurt as Old Man Peanut
- Ian McShane as Meredith
- Tom Wilkinson as Archie
- Joanne Whalley as Liz
- Melvil Poupaud as Loverboy
- Steven Berkoff as Tippi Gordon
- Derek Lea as Bumface
- Andy de la Tour as Biggy Walpole
- Stephen Dillane as Mal
Production
- Country: United Kingdom
- Language: English
- Studios: Omni Films, Prescience Media, Twilight Production & Entertainment, Passenger
- Themes: infidelity, kidnapping, revenge
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