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11 mar 2004 · Solid Air: Directed by May Miles Thomas. With Maurice Roëves, Brian McCardie, Kathy Kiera Clarke, Gary Lewis. Seeking refuge, compulsive gambler Robert Houston Junior comes home to his estranged father, Robert Senior.
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- Drama, Thriller
- May Miles Thomas
- 2004-03-11
A thrilling and complex drama, Solid Air is set in the twin worlds of litigation and high-stakes gambling. Robert Houston, facing an untimely death from asbestosis, finds the courage to pursue a civil case against his former employers.
Films are lumbering and expensive creatures and few filmmakers ever confess the truth of how they actually get made; they have to be willed into existence. The pitch for Solid Air was met with bemusement and rejection. A legal and gambling thriller about a man with an industrial disease?
On a hot July afternoon I stood with my father outside the Glasgow Film Theatre. We had just watched the cast and crew screening of Solid Air, based loosely on his experience of attempting to claim compensation for asbestos poisoning, the result of years working away from home in shipyards, refineries and power stations. The...
26 ago 2003 · Solid Air U.K. Production: A Momentum Pictures release and presentation, in association with Scottish Screen and Glasgow Film Office, of an Elemental Films production.
Air - La storia del grande salto (Air) - Un film di Ben Affleck. Un film pamphlet, da prendere e maneggiare con cura, che racconta i loghi-runa di Nike e Air Jordan attraverso il processo umano e capitalistico. Con Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Jason Bateman, Marlon Wayans, Chris Messina. Drammatico, USA, 2023. Consigli per la visione +13.
14 mag 2024 · Recommendations. Seeking refuge, compulsive gambler Robert Houston Junior comes home to his estranged father, Robert Senior. Discovering a lapsed compensation claim for asbestosis, Junior resolves...
