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DramaComedyDocumentaryAnimationExperimentalMusic
Pitbull
Michael Mulkerrin
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comedy | 2002 | South East | 6 min
Published 07 Mar 06
A mild-mannered man, an ageing skinhead and a belligerent dog trapped in the slowest lift in the world.
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synopsis
Ray, bleary-eyed after a sleepless night following yet another burglary, shares the slow lift down from the 13th floor of his high-rise with an aging but belligerent skinhead and his bull terrier. The skinhead's angry. The dog's hungry. Ray just wants to be left alone - that's not gonna happen.
crew
  • director Michael Mulkerrin
  • writer Michael Mulkerrin
  • editor Bernard Lyall
  • director of photography Nick Read
  • sound Richard Miller
  • music Geoff Sapsford
cast
  • Paul Vates
  • Ricky Stupple
format
16mm/Super 16
© 2002 Michael Mulkerrin

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comment by helen  bell
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posted Jan 28, 2009

i really enjoyed this quirky script, the claustraphobic space and grainy cctv footage.
it was very atmospheric, although the dog did let the side down by looking rather more like a lover than a fighter...but some nice editing to cover it.

comment by Cyrus  McBully
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posted Aug 21, 2008

Hi,
I just wanted to comment that the dog in the movie is a Staffordshire Bull Terrier, not a Pitbull as the title suggests.
As an additional point I would like to discourage film that demonize breeds that are already media oppressed.

That said, Nice Clip!

comment by Christopher  Bramwells
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posted Apr 28, 2007

Very enjoyable. I think the director/writer captured that horible feeling of being trapped by someone who you feel threatened by very well.

comment by brian  stevens
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posted Mar 23, 2006

Quite good. Acting was very good. A film that changed negative to positive. Good creation.

comment by Manu  San
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posted Mar 19, 2006

Absolutely disgusting. It is not the "macho" versus "gay" topic. I sincerely can not understand this very local morbidity, related to violence and angry words. Nostalgic of a creative tradition in British cinema, related to common people, with common topics, it makes you smell the beer and tacky, and dirty, carpet of British National fronts pubs. Not funny

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funded by
Meridian TV 'Taped Up' Scheme in association with Screen South

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