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Call it the Met
Bar effect if you will but actor Nick Moran has had enough
of being portrayed in a negative light by the Press.
The feud with Lock,
Stock and Two Smoking Barrels director Guy Ritchie is a case
in point. "The whole thing is b******s," says Moran.
But there's no
getting away from the controversy surrounding his latest film, Christie
Malry's Own Double Entry.
Held up in distribution
limbo for two long years, a situation made worse by the events of
September 11, this Brit-made black comedy has only now found a home
on the big screen.
Rage
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| Moran's latest
tells the story of a man's campaign to settle his account with
society |
It tells the ferocious,
amoral story of a twenty-something who - driven by rage and frustration
- uses the laws of accountancy to seek revenge against society.
"It's a 21st
century Billy Liar," says Moran, "not just in the story
but in its sensitivity. It doesn't have the optimism that people
have when young."
Double-entry
Based on the cult
novel by the late BS Johnson, who committed suicide two years
after its publication in 1973, the film flashes back to a separate
story set in the Italian Renaissance where bookkeeping's double-entry
system first began.
"You can't
say it's the next Full Monty, or the next Bend It Like
Beckham," continues Moran, "It frightened off the
distributors and the marketing people because they were worried
about how you market a film like this. It's so dark and so funny."
High-profile
Moran's up-and-down
relationship with the Press has led to quieter times, at least socially.
On the work front
his CV is solid and there is more high-profile work in the offing,
including Peter Hyam's The Musketeer and Moran's own project
Baby Juice Express.
The real jewel
though could just be Christie Malry's Own Double Entry: "It's
the sort of film that makes you want to get into the business in
the first place."
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