Choice Brits - Script Factory

HEARTLANDS (cert 12A)

A feel-good charmer from the director of East is East which follows a dim-witted darts fan whose simple life is torn apart when his missus ups sticks and runs off with the local copper. Refusing to admit defeat, our hero sets off on a battered scooter in hot pursuit, but finds the fresh air soon eases the pain of those darts in his heart…
 
Dir. Damien O’Donnell, Scr. Paul Fraser & Richard Jobson
Starring Michael Sheen, Mark Addy, Celia Imrie
UK 2002, 90 mins

For Choice Brits, Heartlands is introduced by Stephen Frears
 
For more on Heartlands see
 
www.bbc.co.uk/films
www.telegraph.co.uk
 

Heartlands
 
Directed by
Damien O'Donnell
 
Written by
Paul Fraser
Story - Richard Jobson
 
Produced by
Gina Carter producer
Andrew Eaton executive producer
Richard Jobson producer
Duncan Kenworthy executive producer
Andrew Keyte associate producer
Andrew Macdonald executive producer
Teresa Moneo executive producer
Allon Reich executive producer
Michael Winterbottom executive producer
 
Cinematography by
Alwin H. Kuchler
 
Film Editing by
Frances Parker
 
Casting by
Wendy Brazington
 
Production Design by
Tom Conroy
 
Art Direction by
Ray Chan
 
Set Decoration by
Liz Griffiths
Eliza Solesbury
 
Costume Design by
Natalie Ward
 
Makeup Department
Konnie Daniel hair designer
Konnie Daniel makeup designer
Laura Schiavo makeup artist
 
Production Management
Paula McBreen production manager
 
Second Unit Director/Assistant Director
Rhiannon Cousins assistant director
Steffan Morris assistant director
Andrea Slater crowd assistant director
Jon Williams first assistant director
 
Art Department
Tristan Carlisle-Kitz props
Roland Coyne stand-by constructor
Chris Cull property master
Eliza Solesbury production buyer
Sarah Stuart assistant art director
Peter Verard construction manager
 
Sound Department
Peter Eusebe sound maintenance engineer
Anthony Faust foley editor
Zane Hayward supervising sound editor
Joakim Sundström dialogue editor
Christian Wangler production sound mixer
Aad Wirtz sound re-recording mixer
 
Cast
Michael Sheen - Colin
Mark Addy - Ron
Jim Carter - Geoff
Celia Imrie - Sonja
Ruth Jones - Mandy
Phillipa Peak - Sarah
Jane Robbins - Sandra
Paul Shane - Zippy
Mark Strong - Ian
Paul Popplewell - Gulliver's Kingdom Soldier
Jade Rhodes - Ebony
 
90 minutes
UK / USA 2002
 
Certificate (12A)
 

Heartlands was released in the UK by Buena Vista International in May 2003

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