Complicity (Original title)
Dates: 1999 (Copyright), 28 January 2000 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirector: Gavin Millar
Synopsis: Based 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.
Genre: Thriller
Dates: 1999 (Copyright), 28 January 2000 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirector: Gavin Millar
Synopsis: Based 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.
Genre: Thriller