Dummy 2008
1h 26 min | Drama | 26 June 2009 (UK)
Storyline:
When their mother dies, Danny and Jack must fend for themselves. Danny escapes with sex, drugs and music and Jack turns a mannequin into a surrogate parent. Finally, they must come to terms with each other.
User review:
Death is an extremely difficult thing to deal with. Whether it be the loss of a pet, friend, or close loved one, people deal with loss in a multitude of different ways. Some turn to constructive ways of dealing with their grief and look outward. Others take it much more difficulty and deal with their pain in more destructive fashions. In the 2008 British film Dummy, two brothers deal with the loss of their mother in strikingly different manners. One takes the latter, more destructive route while the other goes about it, rather oddly. The product is a heartfelt story that ultimate does not land its unique premise.
Danny (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) and Jack (Thomas Grant) are two brothers who have been dealt a tough hand. Their dad skipped out on them and their mother Elsa (Therese Bradley) has recently died while they were on vacation. Their mother left a note telling Danny to take care of his younger brother. Danny is a burgeoning young DJ, who has little time for assuming the parental role in his brother’s life. As a result, the demanding and emotionally needy Jack must cope with the loss in his own way. He finds a mannequin and dresses it up to assume the role of his new mother. Danny, on the other hand, fully leaps into his DJing, a new girlfriend Zoe (Emma Catherwood), booze, and drugs. What follows is a clash between their two coping methods that leads them to ultimately come together.
Director: Matthew Thompson
Writers: Paula Barnes (story), Michael Müller (screenplay) (as Michael Mueller)
Stars: Thomas Grant, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Emma Catherwood
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1083450/
Format : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
File size : 556 MiB
Duration : 1 h 25 min
Overall bit rate : 913 kb/s