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Year:
2009
USA: IFC Films
UK: Optimum Releasing
Cast: Eva Green, Juno Temple, Maria Valverde, Imogen Poots, Ellie
Nunn, Adele McCann, Zoë Carroll, Clemmie Dugdale, Sinead Cusack, Helen
Norton, Deirdre Donnelly, Barbara Adair, Lorna Waldron, Alistair
Rumble,Kitty McLaughlin Dunning, Jonathan White
Director: Jordan Scott
Countries: UK / Ireland
USA & UK: 104 mins
USA Rated: Unrated
UK Certificate: 15 contains moderate nudity and sexual obsession
theme
USA Release Date: 18 March 2011 (Limited Release)
UK Release Date: 4 December 2009
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Synopsis
In an austere and remote all girls boarding school, the most elite clique
of girls are the illustrious members of the schools’ diving team. Di
(Juno Temple), Lily (Ellie Nunn), Poppy (Imogen Poots), Laurel (Adele
McCann), Rosie (Zoe Carroll) and Fuzzy (Clemmie Dugdale) are the envy of
their fellow pupils who watch on as the girls compete for the attention of
their glamorous teacher Miss G (Eva Green). Miss G in turn thrives on the
attention she receives from her girls and believes it is her role to teach
them the ways of the world.
As Team Captain, Di is closest of all the girls to Miss G but her position
is challenged when a beautiful Spanish girl, Fiamma (Maria Valverde),
arrives at the school and joins the diving team. Di, pulls rank as team
captain and lays down the rules in an attempt to assert her position but
MISS G is spellbound by Fiamma's beauty and maturity and becomes obsessed
with her new favourite girl.
Jealous of Fiamma, the girls bully her and hound her out of the school,
but Fiamma reluctantly has to return, so the girls are forced to try and
get along and eventually they too begin to warm to her. In an attempt to
put their differences aside, the diving team and Fiamma plan a secret
midnight party to celebrate the feast of St Agnes - a ritualistic
celebration that is both innocent and erotic. In high spirits, the
girls’ lives will be changed forever, as Miss G interrupts the evening
and takes a drunken Fiamma away to her room…
CRACKS, directed by Jordan Scott, is written by Ben Court & Caroline
Ip and Jordan Scott, and was filmed on location in Ireland and at Pinewood
Studios, London.
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