''The Miserables'' is a short film (20 minutes) directed by
Benjamin Taylor and written by
Alex Lipman.
Released in 2010 by University of Westminster, the film was a finalist at The 38th Annual Student Academy Awards in Beverly Hills,
and has been screened at festivals in the UK, USA, China, Russia, Germany and Italy. The film won Best Drama at the 2011 Royal Television Society Student Awards where the short was ''considered by the jury to be outstanding. A very good emotional script, had been creatively executed with sensitivity, flair, restraint, and imagination.''
Plot
Struggling to cope with his wife Evelyn's (
Maggie Steed
Maggie Steed (born Margaret Baker; 1 December 1946) is an English actress and comedian.
Career
After studying drama at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in Bristol in the late 1960s, Steed left the theatre for several years, until she was about ...
) terminal illness, Murray Pickleton (
Ian Hogg) constructs time machines out of their furniture in his efforts to relive their past and escape the present. Evelyn is skeptical, but when her doctor insists she is to be moved to a hospice, she joins her husband in remembering their life together and attempts to discuss his life after hers.
Cast
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Maggie Steed
Maggie Steed (born Margaret Baker; 1 December 1946) is an English actress and comedian.
Career
After studying drama at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in Bristol in the late 1960s, Steed left the theatre for several years, until she was about ...
– Evelyn Pickleton
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Ian Hogg – Murray Pickleton
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Henry Everett – Doctor
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Elizabeth Muncey – Alison
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Scott Ellis
Scott Ellis (born April 19, 1957) is an American stage director, actor, and television director.
Life and career
Ellis graduated from Goodman School of Drama at the Art Institute of Chicago (now at DePaul University) in Chicago. – George
Awards and nominations
Festival screenings
In addition to receiving various awards and nominations, ''The Miserables'' has also been screened at many short film festivals around the world, including the following:
*2011 – Big Sur Film Festival in California, USA.
*2011 – IULM Film Festival in Milan, Italy.
*2011 – No Limits Film Festival in Sheffield, UK.
*2011 – Up and Coming Film Festival in Hannover, Germany.
*2010 –
VGIK
The Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography, officially the S. A. Gerasimov All-Russian University of Cinematography (, meaning
''All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography named after S. A. Gerasimov''), a.k.a. VGIK, is a film school in Moscow, ...
International Film Festival in Moscow, Russia.
External links
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Watch The Miserables
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Miserables, The
2010 films
British drama short films
2010s English-language films
2010s British films
2010 short films