13 minutes. One cell. Two strangers. Zero mercy.
A man condemned to die is allowed a prostitute for his last night alive, but the two of them have dark secrets to share.
Acting
Aston and Hall's compressed, vicious intimacy in razor-sharp minutes.
Direction
Murphy wrings maximum dread from one cramped room and looming doom.
Director
Michael J. Murphy
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Michael J. Murphy was a prolific UK underground filmmaker who made over 40 features and shorts on shoestring budgets, often shooting in a single day with friends.
Made during Thatcher-era Britain, the film's bleak transactional relationships and institutional cruelty mirror the era's anxieties about poverty and social decay.
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