Women Talking Dirty

Synopsis

The second feature from Stella Does Tricks director Coky Giedroyc, Women Talking Dirty charts the ups and downs in the relationship between two friends in Edinburgh: headstrong single mother Cora (Helena Bonham Carter) and shy but successful cartoonist Ellen (Gina McKee) who is struggling to support her no-good gambling husband. As they gamely deal with the vicissitudes of life, their friendship is tested but ultimately proves too strong to crumble.



The film is based on the popular novel by Scottish author Isla Dewar, published in 1996, and marks the debut production from Elton John's Rocket Pictures, which acquired the rights to the novel and then brought on board Giedroyc on the strength of her previous film. Rocket then teamed up with Jean Doumanian, the New York-based producer best known for her collaborations with Woody Allen, in an Anglo-American co-production. The work-in-progress print was screened at last year's Toronto Film Festival, since when the film has been back into the cutting rooms for fine-tuning. It has just been completed.



Meanwhile, Rocket Pictures is developing a number of features across the genres and budget ranges, including the partly-animated Just So series, in co-production with the Walt Disney Co, and So I Am Glad, an adaptation of another Scottish novel, this time by AL Kennedy, which will be co-produced and star husband and wife team Ed Harris and Amy Madigan.

Details

Year

2000

Type of film

Features

Director

Coky Giedroyc

Music

Elton John.

Dir

Coky Giedroyc.

Exec prods

JE Beaucaire, Jean Doumanian,

Prods

David Furnish,

Scr

Isla Dewar, based on her novel.

DoP

Brian Tufano.

Prod des

Lynne Whiteread.

Ed

Budge Tremlett.

Main cast

Helena Bonham Carter, Gina McKee, Eileen Atkins, Kenneth Cranham, James Nesbitt, James Purefoy, Ken Drury, Julien Lambroschini, Richard Wilson.

Budget

£3m.

Funding

Jean Doumanian Productions, Rocket Pictures.

Genre

Production status

Complete

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Last updated 24th June 2005