
CREDITS
CAST: Martin Compston, Nichola Burley, Felicity Jones, Alfie Allen and Pat Shortt
WRITERS: Jeff Williams
DIRECTOR: Shimmy Marcus
PRODUCER: Christine Alderson
CO-PRODUCER: Natasha Carlish
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: Edwina Forkin and Lorianne Hall
LINE PRODUCER: Hayley Manning
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SOULBOY
COMPLETED
Financed and Supported by Screen West Midlands, Molinare, Northern Film and Media, Soda Pictures, Moviehouse Entertainment, Stoke City Council,
Staffordshire University and Media Programme.
SHORT SYNOPSIS
Stoke on Trent, 1974 - Amidst power cuts, strikes and boot-boy aggro on the
football terraces, restless JOE MCCAIN (MARTIN COMPSTON), is bored with the
flatline tedium of a life thatıs going nowhere. He trudges through his
Monday to Friday delivery van job, while pulling off some petty theft with
his partner in crime and best friend RUSS MOUNTJOY (ALFIE ALLEN). Enter
trainee hair-dresser JANE (NICHOLA BURLEY). Blonde, brassy, and moving to
the beat of a music that opens the door to a whole new world of sound,
movement and allnighter dancing at The Wigan Casino - the home of Northern
Soul!
Joe persuades Russ to go with him to check it out. Once there, Joe is
seduced by the music, the dancing, the drugs and Jane. He strikes up a
friendship with MANDY (FELICITY JONES) a cute and spunky artist who is eager
to help Joe become the cool ³soul boy² he wants to be. She helps him learn
the all important dance moves and a friendship quickly develops as she
encourages him to open up and grow. Mandy falls for Joe who is swept along
on this tide of pulsating dance and lust, finally finding somewhere he
belongs. As Joe falls deeper and deeper into the Northern Soul scene, his
new paradise is threatened by Janeıs drug dealing boyfriend ALAN (CRAIG
PARKINSON) and a crumbling friendship with Russ. A love triangle develops
with Jane and Mandy, and Joe has to decide who he really wants in his life.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT
PRODUCERS:
UK:
Christine Alderson
Ipso Facto Films
7-15 Pink Lane
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 5DW
T: +44 (0) 191 230 2585
E: info@ipsofactofilms.com
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