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Synopsis: Jack is a children's author turned crime novelist whose detailed research into the lives of Victorian serial killers has turned him into a paranoid wreck, persecuted by the irrational fear of being murdered. When Jack is thrown a life-line by his long-suffering agent and a mysterious Hollywood executive takes a sudden and inexplicable interest in his script, what should be his big break rapidly turns into his big breakdown, as Jack is forced to confront his worst demons; among them his love life, his laundry and the origin of all fear.
Genre: Comedy
Director(s): Crispian Mills, Chris Hopewell (co-director)
Production: Cinedigm Entertainment
  3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.9
Metacritic:
31
Rotten Tomatoes:
31%
R
Year:
2012
100 min
Website
280 Views


and serial killers are very similar.

They're practically brothers.

Hemingway says,

What do you need to become a writer?

"An unhappy childhood." It's

the same thing with serial killers.

Whatever happened to the hedgehog?

- What?

- He had to cross the road...

...and go into the woods,

but he was afraid.

- Harold the Hedgehog?

- Harold the Hedgehog.

Dear little chap.

Whatever happened to that story?

- You never finished him.

- He nearly finished me.

He wrecked my marriage,

prickly c*nt.

No, he did, Clair.

I'm sorry, the stress of it.

Drove Catherine out of my life.

What do you wanna talk about him for?

Darling, I'm just thinking you need

to earn some money, that's all.

This death thing could take a while.

Timmy the Tortoise can't

pay the bills.

I don't want him to. I didn't mean

to become a children's author.

- It was a terrible accident.

- It was your destiny.

Look, why not rattle off

a little bedtime story, mm?

- Timmy goes to the seaside perhaps?

- Oh, God.

Or Harold. How did it start?

"Once upon a time,

there was a hedgehog called Harold

"Who lived in a bush." (GIGGLES)

(MUSIC BOX PLAYS)

(VOICE ECHOING)

Or Little Johnny Rabbit.

The world is dying

for another Little Johnny Rabbit.

Little Johnny Rabbit is dead.

So is Timmy,

so is the f***ing hedgehog.

They're lying in the road,

covered in blood. I killed them.

Tell that to the kids.

(THUNDER)

Darling, we're going

to make this work.

Just try not to worry too much,

and take care of yourself.

You know me better

than anyone, Clair.

Yes, I do. You're a workaholic

and you're sensitive.

I don't wanna see you go over

the edge like what's-his-name.

(GASPS)

(JACK) Clair's concerns about me

proved justified.

Three weeks on and Long Ear's head

was playing on my mind.

(CREAKING)

Life was hellish,

but it was just about to get

a hell of a lot worse.

(FOOTSTEPS)

(DOOR HANDLE SQUEKS)

Come on then, you bastards!

Aaaaaargh!

My knife.

(BREATHES DEEPLY)

Ah!

(SPOOKY WHISPERING)

(LAUGHS)

You mad bastard.

(CREAKING)

(URINE SPLASHING IN TOILET)

(BREATH ES NERVOUSLY)

(SPLASH OF URINE CONTINUES)

# As evening shadows chase the sun

# The night is here,

my day is done

# Through dark forests in the night

# A light is shone

# It's you I've found

# I see you

# I see you #

Argh!

(GASPS)

(SOFTLY) Oh, God.

(DISTANT POLICE SIREN)

Oh, I got an hour.

(BUZZ OF HELICOPTER)

The flying eye

Oh, someone's on the loose.

(PHONE RINGS)

It was 5:
00 when the telephone rang

that fateful evening.

- Sh*t, I could...

- (DOOR BUZZER)

(CHILDREN)

# We wish you a merry Christmas

(OUT OF TUNE)

# We wish you a merry Christmas

- # We wish you a merry Christmas

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Crispian Mills

Crispian Mills (born 18 January 1973 as Crispian John David Boulting; spiritual name Krishna Kanta Das) is an English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and film director. Active since 1988, Mills is best known as the frontman of the psychedelic indie rock band Kula Shaker. Following the band's break-up in 1999, he remained with Columbia Records (a subsidiary of Sony BMG), and toured with a set of session musicians (including a support slot for Robbie Williams) under the name Pi, although no official studio recordings were released in full. After the label rejected the Pi album, Mills disappeared for a short time, returning in 2002 as frontman and lead guitarist for back-to-basics rock outfit The Jeevas, who disbanded in 2005 to make way for a reformed Kula Shaker, who released their third album Strangefolk in 2007. 2010 he released the album Pilgrims Progress with Kula Shaker. In 2017 the band celebrated the 20th anniversary of their album K with the release of the new record K 2.0. Mills joined the band for a sold-out UK tour to celebrate the anniversary. Mills is the son of actress Hayley Mills and director Roy Boulting, the grandson of Sir John Mills and Mary Hayley Bell, nephew of Juliet Mills and directors John Boulting and Jonathan Mills, and half-brother to Jason Lawson. more…

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