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2005 in film

- Highest-grossing films :Please note that following the tradition of the English-language film industry, these are the top-grossing films that were first released in the United States in 2005...

 United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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 film starring Stockard Channing

Stockard Channing

Stockard Channing is an American stage, film and television actress. She is known for her portrayal of First Lady Abbey Bartlet in the NBC television series The West Wing; for playing Betty Rizzo in the film Grease; and for her role as Ouisa Kittredge in the play Six Degrees of Separation and its...

, Pete Postlethwaite

Pete Postlethwaite

Peter William "Pete" Postlethwaite, OBE, was an English stage, film and television actor.After minor television appearances including in The Professionals, Postlethwaite's first success came with the film Distant Voices, Still Lives in 1988. He played a mysterious lawyer, Mr...

, Juliet Stevenson

Juliet Stevenson

Juliet Anne Virginia Stevenson, CBE is an English actor of stage and screen.- Early life :Stevenson was born in Kelvedon, Essex, England, the daughter of Virginia Ruth , a teacher, and Michael Guy Stevenson, an army officer. Stevenson's father was in the army and was posted to a new place every...

, Ron Silver

Ron Silver

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 and David Bradley

David Bradley (actor)

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, and directed by Roy Battersby

Roy Battersby

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Plot summary

The film is a thriller about a terrorist kidnapping.
Three terrorist bomb-makers get a tipoff that their safehouse is about to be raided;
flee on foot; kidnap hostages in an attempt to escape.

Production

The film was written, produced and filmed over a four month period.

The film was the first film aimed for a Western audience produced by a new film production company named Inspire, that planned to apply Bollywood

Bollywood

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 film production methods to films made in the United Kingdom

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According to the producers the writer, Farrukh Dhondy

Farrukh Dhondy

Farrukh Dhondy is a British writer, playwright and activist of Indian Parsi descent.-Education:Dhondy obtained a BSc degree from University of Poona in India before winning a scholarship to Pembroke College, Cambridge in 1964 where he read Natural Sciences before switching to English...

, was interviewed by British counter-terrorism officials, to verify that the bomb-plot in the script was unrelated to their active investigations.

Release

The film was released at the 2005 Cannes film festival

Cannes Film Festival

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It did not have a theatrical release in the USA, being released to DVD in June 2007.