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Title: NEAR ROOM, the

Reference number: 3099

Date: 1995

Director: d. David Hayman

Sponsor: The Scottish Film Production Fund, British Screen Finance and Strathclyde Regional Council

Producer: Leonard Crooks

Production company: Inverclyde Productions

Sound: sound

Original format: 35mm

Certificate: 18

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 89.54 mins

Description: Charlie Colquhoun is a journalist whose career is floundering. As a teenager, he fathered a daughter, Tommy, who was committed to foster care as an infant. Seventeen years later, Charlie, Tommy, and Charlie's old schoolmate Harris Hill (now a squeaky-clean solicitor) are reunited by a scandal that includes child pornography, blackmail and murder. [Synopsis taken from Internet Movie Database at http://uk.imdb.com].

See also review articles:
Bignall, Darren. Empire magazine, May 1997, p.56
Gibson, Troy. Film Review, May 1997, p.56.
Scotland on Sunday, August 1995.

Credits: Glasgow Film Fund and British Screen Finance presents

screenplay Robert Murphy
p. des. Andy Harris
d. ph. Kevin Rowley
film ed. Martin Sharpe
m. James Grant with Paul McGeechan
assoc. p. Jo Homewood
1st assistant p. Tommy Gormley
location manager Brian Kaczynski
casting Alice Hayman
camera operator Alan Stewart
sd. rec. Cameron Crosby
costume designer Rhona Russell

Shotlist: The Near Room is a psychological thriller that exposes the seedy innercity world of lost children, drugs, pimps and prostitutes.

Charlie Colquhon (Adrian Dunbar - 'The Crying Game') is a burnt out journalist who meets Harris Hill (David O'Hara - 'Braveheart') his ex-school friend who is now a solicitor with an unblemished reputation of justice for all. After 17 years they are reunited by one name - Tommy Stirling. Tommy is Charlie's daughter, the fostered child of a teenage pregnancy who is linked to an alleged child pornography scandal with a senior police detective.

The trail leads Charlie to contacts who are murdered before they can meet, then he discovers that Harris, the squeaky clean solicitor is involved. Charlie must confront his deadliest fears of childhood prostitution, blackmail and brutal murder if he is to save his daughter.

[Summary from Love Film website at http://shop.lovefilm.com/lovefilm/87861.product. Last accessed 30/10/2008]

REEL 1
(18.26) 1659ft

REEL 2
(20.08) 1813ft

REEL 3
(18.50) 1695ft

REEL 4
(19.30) 1755ft

REEL 5
(13.00) 1170ft