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5.8/10
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A darkly-comic thriller about a lone tollbooth operator whose past is quickly catching up with him.A darkly-comic thriller about a lone tollbooth operator whose past is quickly catching up with him.A darkly-comic thriller about a lone tollbooth operator whose past is quickly catching up with him.
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Ok so if you like quirky, dark, a bit off the wall, really small town with comedy sprinkled in then it's here. I absolutely give this gem a solid 8! Extremely well written, and wonderfully directed. Cinematography is fantastic, and all of the acting is right on the money Each character plays their part exceptionally well and I'll give a lot of that to the director.
Michael Smilley and Annes Elway are absolute standouts!! You can literally feel they were motion says they're acting.
Think David Lynch meets Wes Anderson and then you have it.
The storyline is very easy to follow although you're not certain what's going to happen next and what's better than that.
I would highly recommend this.
Michael Smilley and Annes Elway are absolute standouts!! You can literally feel they were motion says they're acting.
Think David Lynch meets Wes Anderson and then you have it.
The storyline is very easy to follow although you're not certain what's going to happen next and what's better than that.
I would highly recommend this.
Americans bemuse me, asking for bloody subtitles, yet i seem to understand all of your accents? No wonder the world says 'dumb yanks'. On point, what an excellent little indie, full of the cream of British actors/comedians. Tight as a gnats chuff script, great acting and cinematography and lovely dark humour peppered throughout. Again i don't give 8's lightly but come on...Subtitles? (it had them for the welsh bits) Go and watch a bit of World cinema (And not Hollywood crud) this film was great. Well deserving of the 8, as it was written brilliantly. Meh, heathens make my blood boil. Anyway 8+ (just to anger the stupid)
Thought this was a good movie but the only problem is the lack of subtitles. Being deaf I have to rely on subtitles. So the comment about Americans not understanding the speed in which we speak is really silly and the person really hasn't thought this out properly.
I loved this movie, great acting, twisted storylines and some dark laughs.
I don't understand why it's rating is so low, some people have no sense of humour.
I don't understand why it's rating is so low, some people have no sense of humour.
Enjoyed this film, which is clearly shot on a limited budget, with a small cast who were all excellent.
It manages to tell an interesting story set within some well shot Welsh scenery and it kept me watching to the end. If you want an action film this clearly isn't the film for you but as a small scale character piece with some humour then I'd give this a try. Kind of in a similar vein to Restless Natives if anyone reading this remembers that film.
It manages to tell an interesting story set within some well shot Welsh scenery and it kept me watching to the end. If you want an action film this clearly isn't the film for you but as a small scale character piece with some humour then I'd give this a try. Kind of in a similar vein to Restless Natives if anyone reading this remembers that film.
Did you know
- TriviaDixie, who is dressed in an Elvis Presley outfit throughout her appearances in the film, mentions wanting to "get to Porthcawl for the Elvis Festival", which she hopes to win. Porthcawl is a well-known Welsh seaside resort, about eighty or ninety miles from the scene of this film's events and in a different county, and it does hold an annual weekend event honoring "the King", where many hundreds of Elvis impersonators from all over the world compete to see who's the best lookalike.
- ConnectionsReferences Butch Cassidy et le Kid (1969)
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Tollbooth
- Filming locations
- Royal Naval Air Station Dale, Haverfordwest, Wales, UK(The tollbooth is set here on a taxiway and many of the scenes are of the vehicles driving on the old patchwork concrete runways and taxiways of this abandoned WWII airfield.)
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Box office
- Gross worldwide
- $67,248
- Runtime
- 1h 23m(83 min)
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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