A Gun for George

2011
17m

IMDb RATING

7.3/10

328

YOUR RATING

Drama Short

An author of a book series called "The Reprisaliser", lives a lonely life which he can't seem to seperate from from his fiction. At the end of his tether, he comes into the possession of a g... Read allAn author of a book series called "The Reprisaliser", lives a lonely life which he can't seem to seperate from from his fiction. At the end of his tether, he comes into the possession of a gun.An author of a book series called "The Reprisaliser", lives a lonely life which he can't seem to seperate from from his fiction. At the end of his tether, he comes into the possession of a gun.

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IMDb RATING

7.3/10

328

YOUR RATING

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9/10

In its own way this short is a masterpiece

I imagine Holness grew up watching 70s dramas and crime films set in British dreary locations, and this short feels just like them. In my opinion it captured that brutalist look and feel better than Red Riding did a few years before with a much bigger budget.

It's not easy to mix humor with this tone and subject matter, but I did chuckle twice and actually laughed out loud (doesn't happen that often) when Terry gets kicked out of the hospital.

Also, this is not exactly a short, it's more like the first act of a feature length movie that (sadly) never got funding. In its own way this short is a masterpiece.