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Glassland

Call Number

  • DVD DRAMA (EAS, WSQ)

Languages

Closed-captioned.

Performers

Jack Reynor, Will Poulter, Michael Smiley, Toni Collette.

Publication Information

[New York, NY] : Film Movement, [2016]

Physical Description

1 videodisc (93 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

John lives with his mother, Jean, in a social housing suburb and ekes out a meager existence as a taxi driver. After finding his mother unconscious from yet another night of binge drinking, John learns that without treatment, she will not have much longer to live. Desperate to save their broken family, he offers his services to a petty criminal in order to pay for Jean's costly rehab treatment, but this decision runs the risk of changing their lives forever.

Notes

Title from container.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 2014.

Bonus features: Interviews with director Gerard Barrett and stars Jack Reynor and Will Poulter.

Bonus short film: Aïssa / directed by Clément Tréhin-Lalanne (8 minutes).

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