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After receiving a cryptic letter from his estranged father, Norval travels to his dad’s oceanfront home for what he hopes will be a positive experience. If only he’d known the dark truth about his old man beforehand.
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After receiving a cryptic letter from his estranged father, Norval travels to his dad’s oceanfront home for what he hopes will be a positive experience. If only he’d known the dark truth about his old man beforehand.
Best Original Music in a Feature Film | 2020 | Karl
Best Film | 2019 | Ant
Best Screenplay | 2019 | Toby
2019 | Ant
Best Director | 2019 | Ant
Best Supporting Performance by a Male in a Motion Picture | 2020 | Martin
Best Costume Design in Indie Feature | 2020
Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role | 2021 | Stephen
Best Motion Picture | 2019 | Ant
Best Feature Film | 2019 | Ant
Best Film | 2019 | Ant
Best First or Second Feature | 2019 | Ant
Box Office Collection 117,947 USD
The origin of the movie came when Ant Timpson's father passed away and his father's partner thought it was best to bring him home after embalming as a way for him to spend time with the grieving family. The week was spent with the corpse in an open coffin. Then, people that he didn't know came to pay their respects to his father, sharing stories of a man that did not seem like his father.
Much of Norval's look is inspired by Skrillex.
The films that influence the film; and Timpson's reasoning for them, are Snowball Express (1972) ("for the cat & mouse twists"), Sexy Beast (2000) ("for the jarring lead antagonist and turns from comedy to violence"), The Servant (1963) ("for the mindgames with those we're inavoidably [sic] linked with"), The Birthday Party (1968) ("for the pitch-black comedy of menace") and Sam Peckinpah's 1971 masterpiece Straw Dogs (1971) ("for the simmering violence awakened in the lead"). Harvard cites the plays of Harold Pinter, and Roald Dahl's Tales Of The Unexpected as influences on the screenplay.
Toby Harvard based the character of Norval on several people he went to art school with in London.
Both Ant Timpson and Elijah Wood injured themselves during filming that for awhile, Ant had to continue directing while sitting on a chair with a microphone given by the sound department along with speakers put on the camera.
"Ronald Plum: I'm kinda breaking the fourth wall here, but I have this theory: bad guys have eyes that look like raisins. Small and dark, you know?"
"Jethro: I fucked her. I fucked her in an abandoned factory, to be precise. But I lost my erection. Because from certain angles, she reminded me of Michael Heseltine. Michael Heseltine, if you're wondering, is a British politician from the 1980s."
