Director: David Mackenzie
Producer: Gillian Berrie (Sigma Films)
Executive Producer: Matthew Justice
Designer: Tom Sayer
DOP: Giles Nuttgens
Casting Directors: Hamilton & Crawford
Soundtrack: Domino Records
Cast: Jamie Bell, Sophia Myles, Ciarán Hinds, Claire Forlani, Ewen Bremner
World Sales: IFS - Tel: +44 (0)207 257 8734
The screenplay by Ed Whitmore is based on the novel by Peter Jinks. The film is a darkly funny, bittersweet coming of age story about Hallam Foe, a 17 year old misfit who likes to watch the world from a tree house in the grounds of his father’s expansive pile in the Scottish Borders. Hallam is almost over the sudden death of his mother when he begins to suspect that his beautiful step mother may have had a hand in her death, and it doesn’t help that Hallam fancies her rotten. After a confrontation with his step mum, Hallam escapes to the city of Edinburgh. Out of money and out of friends, he finds his tree top skills well suited to the rooftops of the city, where he lives ferally, attempting to avoid the perils of the streets below - including an obsession with a gorgeous girl who happens to look just like his mother. Visit the Official Hallam Foe Blog.
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Awards:
57th Berlinale - Silver Bear - Best Film Music
57th Berlinale - Prize of the Guild of German Art House Cinemas
