Alligator
A Morag Loves Company production
Written by Ed Riche
Produced by Barbara Doran
and Lynne Wilson
© 2009 Morag Loves Company
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A film adaptation of Lisa Moore's award
winning novel Alligator. Meet Frank, a young
man of innocence and determination whose life is a strange
anthology of unpredictable dangers; Valentin, the sociopathic
Russian refugee whose predatory tendencies threaten everyone
he encounters; Madeleine, the driven aging filmmaker whose
mission is to complete a Bergmanesque magnum opus before
she dies; and Colleen, at seventeen a hard-edged female
Holden Caulfield, drawn inexorably to the places where
alligators thrive. The story moves with the swiftness
of a gator in attack mode through the lives of these brilliantly
rendered characters in contemporary St. John's, Newfoundland
– a city whose spiritual location is somewhere in
the heart of Flannery O'Connor country. Listen to its
heartbeat, and be moved – and delighted. |
