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Junkhearts

Directed by Tinge Krishnan

Written by Simon Frank

Starring; Eddie Marsan, Tom Sturridge, Romola Garri, Candese Reid

Despite the London Film Festival’s global reach and cosmopolitan constitution, it also dedicates particular attention to indigenous product, providing a valuable outlet to low budget domestic British cinema to gain the attention it occasionaly deserves, with an opportunity to be seen on the big screen as intended through their New British Cinema festival strand. One of the films under this years banner is Junkhearts, an urban drama in which Eddie Marsan plays Frank, a lonely, alcoholic ex-soldier who seems to be sliding toward an early grave as he suffers Ptsd-induced hallucinations following a brutal tour of Northern Ireland some years earlier. When he meets and befriends the homeless waif Lysette (an impressive turn from newcomer Candese Reid) he seems to have found a surrogate for his estranged daughter, a single mother...

Tom Sturridge ("Pirate Radio"), Eddie Marsan ("Sherlock Holmes"), Romola Garai ("Atonement") and newcomer Candese Reid are teaming for Tinge Krishnan's debut feature "Junkhearts" for Coded Pictures reports Variety.

Simon Frank penned the script about an ex-soldier haunted by his past who is deceived by a young couple who attempt use his home as a drugs den.

Karen Katz is producing and filming is currently underway in London.

Coded Pictures began production this week on the suspense drama Junkhearts in London, with a cast headed by Eddie Marsan (Happy-Go-Lucky), Tom Sturridge (Pirate Radio), Romola Garai (Atonement), and newcomer Candese Reid. The picture follows “a vulnerable ex-soldier haunted by his past, who finds himself manipulated by a young couple as they attempt to use his home as a drugs den.” This is director Tinge Krishnan’s feature debut with a script from Simon Frank (The Dry Cleaner). Hit the jump for the full press release.

Here’s the official press release:

Eddie Marsan, Tom Sturridge And Romola Garai Join “Junkhearts” As Film Cameras Roll In London

London: 1 June 2010 – Award winning actor Eddie Marsan (Happy-Go-Lucky; Vera Drake, Sherlock Holmes) is joined by talented cast members: Tom Sturridge (The Boat That Rocked, Vanity Fair, Being Julia), Romola Garai (Vanity Fair, Atonement, I Capture the Castle) and newcomer Candese Reid in director...

Low-budget British indie Junkhearts is now being lead by the regularly excellent Eddie Marsan, and will be joined British up and comers Tom Sturridge (the young fella from The Boat That Rocked) and Romola Garai (I Capture The Castle, Atonement).Following on from his similarly dark and edgy The Disappearance Of Alice Creed, Junkhearts is a gritty urban story of an ex-soldier who is convinced by a manipulative young couple into letting them take over his house and use it as a drug den. Happy days!It’s being directed by newcomer Tinge Krishnan, who’s previously won a BAFTA for her short film Shadowscan in 2001, a similarly bleak tale, a discussion of depression set on a nightshift of an NHS hospital. The script is written by another relative beginner Simon Frank, who’s so excited about the project he tweeted just a few days ago: “Day two of Junkhearts shoot.

London -- Eddie Marsan, Tom Sturridge, Romola Garai and newcomer Candese Reid are all cast in director Tinge Krishnan's debut movie outing "Junkhearts," produced by Karen Katz from Coded Pictures.

Billed as a suspense drama, the script is penned by Simon Frank.

It details the story of an vulnerable ex-soldier haunted by his past, who finds himself manipulated by a young couple as they attempt to use his home as a drugs den.

Krishnan scored a BAFTA short film award previously for "Shadowscan."

Coded Pictures has so far produced short film "The Mood" and "Moving To Mars," a feature documentary directed by Mat Whitecross charting the repatriation of two Karen refugee families from Burma who move to Sheffield as part of the Un Gateway program.

Krishnan's "Junkhearts" begins shooting in London this week.