Plot & Details
This dramatic love story takes place in a British prison. Rachel, a young dentist, decides to take a part-time job at a nearby prison after she and her husband are separated. There, she meets Philip, whose ten-year incarceration for killing his girlfriend is almost up. Rachel and Philip fall in love, which is a breach of Rachel's professional contract. Towler, fellow inmate and former drug dealer, finds out and blackmails Rachel into bringing contraband to prison. When Rachel learns that she is to bring a gun to Towler, she changes her mind, but as she tries to leave she finds herself a target in a shoot-out.
- MPAA Rating: R
- Genre(s): Drama,Action
- Run Time: 100min.
- Theatrical Release Date: 05/03/1996
- DVD Release Date: 06/04/2002
- Director(s): Angela Pope
- Starring: Tim Roth , Julia Ormond , Keith Allen , Siobhan Redmond , Peter Capaldi
- Themes: Self-Destructive Romance,Blackmail,Forbidden Love
- Tone: Bittersweet,Passionate,Tense
- Keywords: blackmail,dentist,drug-dealer,inmate,killer,love-affair,prison
- Language: English
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