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Broken [videorecording] / BBC Films and BFI present in association with LipSync Productions and Bill Kenwright Films a Cuba Pictures production ; directed by Rufus Norris ; screenplay by Mark O'Rowe ; produced by Dixie Linder, Tally Garner, Nick Marston, Bill Kenwright.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: DV0108 | RB MediaLanguage: English Original language: English Subtitle language: English Series: Film Movement series ; v. 11, film 1.Publication details: [New York] : Film Movement ; Prince Frederick, MD : Distributed by RB Media, [2013], 2012.Description: 1 videodisc (91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
ISBN:
  • 1470365294
  • 9781470365295
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Production credits:
  • Director of photography, Rob Hardy ; editor, Victoria Boydell ; music, Electric Wave Bureau.
Cast: Tim Roth, Cillian Murphy, Rory Kinnear, Robert Emms, Eloise Laurence.Summary: Skunk is an 11 year-old girl who lives a carefree life with her father, on a cul-de-sac in a very much middle-class neighborhood in Britain. At the beginning of the movie Skunk sees Rick, a young man living across the street, getting violently beaten up by yet another neighbor, Mr. Oswald. We later learn that one of Oswald's daughters, in order to save face, told her dad that Rick raped her, following which Oswald in a rage pummels Rick. Skunk is unwittingly drawn into the neighbors' unfolding melodrama of violence, sex, and life-shattering illness. Her home, neighborhood and school become treacherous environments where the happy certainties of childhood give way to fear-filled doubt. She is drawn into an ethereal chaos from which she may only return through the intense love of those closest to her.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The summer holidays have just begun and young Skunk's afternoons are full of daydreams and curious wanderings, with the exception that she must regularly give herself injections for her type-one diabetes. When, one day, Skunk discovers her bitter and angry older neighbor, Mr. Oswald, savagely beating Rick, a psychologically troubled boy from the neighborhood who has been callously and fictitiously accused of rape, Skunk's innocence begins to vanish.

Based on the novel by Daniel Clay.

Enhanced for widescreen TV (16x9).

Originally released as a motion picture in 2012.

Series numbering from disc menu.

Special features: interviews with actors and director; biographies and trailers; bonus short film: "The way the world ends" directed by Matthew B. Wolff (15 min.).

Director of photography, Rob Hardy ; editor, Victoria Boydell ; music, Electric Wave Bureau.

Tim Roth, Cillian Murphy, Rory Kinnear, Robert Emms, Eloise Laurence.

Skunk is an 11 year-old girl who lives a carefree life with her father, on a cul-de-sac in a very much middle-class neighborhood in Britain. At the beginning of the movie Skunk sees Rick, a young man living across the street, getting violently beaten up by yet another neighbor, Mr. Oswald. We later learn that one of Oswald's daughters, in order to save face, told her dad that Rick raped her, following which Oswald in a rage pummels Rick. Skunk is unwittingly drawn into the neighbors' unfolding melodrama of violence, sex, and life-shattering illness. Her home, neighborhood and school become treacherous environments where the happy certainties of childhood give way to fear-filled doubt. She is drawn into an ethereal chaos from which she may only return through the intense love of those closest to her.

Not rated by the MPAA.

DVD, region 1, NTSC; Enhanced for widescreen TV (16x9); 5.1 surround or stereo. sound.

Closed-captioned.

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