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Title: MARRIAGE COUNSELLOR, the

Reference number: 7658

Date: 2003

Director: d. Raymond Friel and Derek Boyle

Sponsor: Scottish Screen, Glasgow Film Office

Producer: Kathy Proctor

Production company: Emergency Productions

Sound: sound

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 9.33 mins

Description: Davie Morgan is a marriage counsellor on the verge of a nervous breakdown. His wife is about to leave him and his compulsive gambling is getting out of control. And when a marriage counsellor's marriage is in trouble it's got to affect his work….

Davie Morgan is 36 and going through a mid life crisis. The job he once loved is now stale, and as his own marriage flounders he transfers his personal problems to his professional life. Unhappy with himself, but unable to escape like many a weak man before him his vices take over.

The film is sent in present day Glasgow and shows Davie’s life (gambling, marriage counselling and going to strip clubs) spiral out of control.

Credits: w. and d. Raymond Friel and Derek Boyle
p. Kathy Proctor

Cast
Davie George Drennan
Caroline Kate Dickie
John Rod Young
Becky Susan Coyle
Clare Tracey Robertson
Phillipa Vivian Wallace
Robert Shaun McClaren
Mike Donald John MacDonald
Jill Maureen Gillespie
Bob Lex Johnston
Linda Debbie Mason
Phyllis Jennette Hamilton
Amanda Gillian Bowman
Terry William Tweedie
Maggie Jacqueline Hannah
Dancer Alycia Rendall, Sharon Freeman

Production Team
p. man. Marine Munro
p. ass. Sharon Balfour
p. runner Mark Dailly
ass. d. Rosie Toner, David Caldwell
art designer James Lapsley
art d. Jade Strachan
art dept. ass. David Smith
camera operator Kirstin McMahon
focus puller George Geddes
camera ass. Ryan McCormack
wardrobe Marie Proctor
make-up Niamh Morrison
sd. designer Music Mountain
add.m. "Here Come the Warm Jets" written by Brian Eno, performed by Brian Eno, publisher BMG Songs Ltd. "All The Money's Gone" wrtten by Jas Mann, performed by Babylon Zoo, publisher EMI Music.
sd. rec. Angus McPake
boom operator Will Cooper
lighting gaffer Derrick Ritchie
lighting ass. Neil Murray
technical ass. James Stirling
graphic designer Jack Kibble-White
stills ph. Sue Osbourne
post production facility Hamilton Ironside
ed. James Hamilton

Special thanks to Natascha Warton and Rachael Prior at Working Title 2, Lenny Crooks, Becky Lloyd, Alice Stilgoe, David Smith, Maryann Wilson, Michael and Denise Caldwell, Jamie MacWilliam and all at The Truffle Club.

Filmed entirely on location in Glasgow.
Supported by Scottish Screen National Lottery Fund and The Glasgow Film Office.