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- BFI identifier523588
- Date1999 (Copyright)
2000-01-28 (Release) - Production countryUnited Kingdom
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- SynopsisBased on the novel by Iain Banks. A thriller about a journalist who writes articles on topical subjects exposing environmental, military and political wrongdoing. When his articles are linked to a series of brutal murders, suspicion falls on him and he begins to doubt the motives of his unknown telephone informant. (Synopsis) Thriller. Cameron Colley is a young crime journalist working for a Scottish newspaper who is having an affair with Yvonne, the wife of his friend, businessman William. Cameron is looking for a good story to help his career, and hopes this will come via a series of 'tips' given by telephone by a Mr Archer, who claims to be a security services 'mole'. The names Cameron is given are all of people who have died mysteriously over the past few months and are connected to a possible scandal involving the sale of arms from Britain to Iraq. However, when the police inform Cameron the deaths are possibly linked to a campaign of retribution suggested in an earlier newspaper article he had written advocating death for figures of the establishment who 'bend the rules for their own gain', Cameron begins to wonder whether he is actually being framed by one of his own friends. (Synopsis)
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Title
Complicity (Original)
EIDR identifier
10.5240/0B43-88E6-F1FB-5A00-EF23-ICategory
FictionThis work is included in the BFI Filmography.
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- ArticlesSight and Sound v10 n11 November 2000 - Credits, Review, SynopsisEmpire n136 October 2000 - DVD ReviewVariety 7 Aug 2000 - Credits, Review, SynopsisIn Camera October 1999 - Article, Credits, Filmographyview all
- Complicity
Work - 523588 - 1999 (Copyright)
United Kingdom - Film - Fiction
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