Broken [videorecording] / Film Movement, BBC Films and BFI present in association with LipSync Productions and Bill Kenwright Films a Cuba Pictures production ; produced by Dixie Linder, Tally Garner, Nick Marston, and Bill Kenwright ; screenplay by Mark O'Rowe ; directed by Rufus Norris.
Title from container. Based on the novel by Daniel Clay. Enhanced for widescreen TV (16x9). Bonus short film: The way the world ends (15 min.) / director, Matthew B. Wolff. Originally released as a motion picture, 2012. 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 Oswalt 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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