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Release year: 2012

Storyline

A crime novelist whose research on Victorian serial killers has turned him into a paranoid wreck must confront his worst fears when a film executive takes a sudden interest in his movie script.

Top credits

Directors

Writers

Crispian Mills

Cast

Simon Pegg — Jack
Paul Freeman — Dr. Friedkin
Amara Karan — Sangeet
Clare Higgins — Clair De Grunwald

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Did you know

• In the final exterior shot of the street, a newspaper stand reads "BODIES FOUND UNDER SOHO RESTAURANT", implying that the maître d', who seated Jack earlier in the film (at a restaurant in SoHo) might have actually been a killer and madman, as Jack had suspected.

• The first film backed by Pinewood Studios' initiative to support low-budget British filmmaking.

• As a chance to get under the skin of an adult feeling trapped by his life choices, Simon Pegg and Director Crispian Mills took their children to a concert by the Australian children's group, The Wiggles. They were struck by how enraptured the children were by the performers, and couldn't help wonder what the men playing The Wiggles must actually feel like from a creatively empowered point of view, as the opportunities to do anything else must be severely limited for them.