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| SCREWED |
Year: 2011
UK: Lionsgate UK
Cast: James D'Arcy, Noel Clarke, Frank Harper, Jamie Foreman,
Doug Allen, Noel Clarke, Kate Magowan, David Hayman, Cal Macaninch,
Ray Panthaki, Andrew Shim
Director: Reg Traviss
Country: UK
UK: 110 mins
UK Certificate: 18 contains frequent use of very strong
language
UK Release Date: 3 June 2011 (Limited Release)
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Synopsis
Gritty prison thriller SCREWED turns the genre on its head by
showing life behind bars through the eyes of the guards.
James D’Arcy (MASTER & COMMANDER, EXORCIST: THE BEGINNING,
SECRET DIARY OF A CALL GIRL) stars as Sam, an English everyman
forced to take a job as a prison officer on his return from a
traumatic tour of duty in Iraq. He quickly bonds with his hardened
fellow screws but the violence and desperation he witnesses on the
job and his haunting memories of bloodshed overseas draw him down
into a world of drink and drugs – a world in which he is
increasingly alienated from his family.
When a confrontation with the prison authorities on the inside and
the fatal shooting of a fellow officer on the outside lead Sam to
the realisation that the watchmen may be as corrupt as the prisoners
they’re paid to watch, he becomes embroiled in a potentially
deadly game of cat-and-mouse against the background of a full-scale
cellblock riot.
SCREWED is produced and written by the man who lived it, Ronnie
Thompson, and directed by Reg Traviss (JOY DIVISION, PSYCHOSIS).
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