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- BFI identifier598496
- Date2001 (Copyright)
2002-11-01 (Release) - Production countryUnited Kingdom, Canada
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- SynopsisDrama. Twenty-one year-old Morvern Callar lives in a small coastal town in the west of Scotland, where she works in a supermarket. When she returns home from work to find her boyfriend has committed suicide, she appropriates his unpublished novel and uses funds from his bank account to fly to Spain with her best friend. (Synopsis) Based on the novel by Alan Warner. The story of a young working class woman from a small port in western Scotland, who uses the suicide of her boyfriend as the means of escaping from her small town existence. She empties his bank account, appropriates his unpublished novel, and flies off Spain with her best girl friend. (Synopsis)
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- CreditsDirected by: Lynne Ramsay
©: Morvern Callar Productions Limited
Presented by: Alliance Atlantis
view all - CastSamantha Morton (Morvern Callar)
Kathleen Mcdermott (Lanna)
Raife Patrick Burchell (boy in room 1022)
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Morvern Callar (Original)
Morvern Caller (Help search)
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10.5240/D036-8E16-69C3-0FB1-7D56-FCategory
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This work is available to view in the Mediatheque at BFI Southbank.
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view all - ArticlesSight and Sound v13 n9 September 2003 - DVD ReviewSight and Sound v12 n7 July 2002 - ArticleCineforum n416 July 2002 - ReviewScreen International n1296 16 Feb 2001 - Credits, Prod. Detailsview all
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Work - 598496 - 2001 (Copyright)
United Kingdom - Film - Fiction
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