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TWO MEN, ONE FACE
CONTENT MEDIA CORPORATION PRESENTS AN ISLAND PICTURES PRODUCTION ‘THE SCAPEGOAT’ BASED ON THE NOVEL BY DAPHNE DU MAURIER
STARRING MATTHEW RHYS EILEEN ATKINS ANTON LESSER JODHI MAY PHOEBE NICHOLLS ALICE ORR-EWING ANDREW SCOTT SHERIDAN SMITH SYLVIE TESTUD PIP TORRENS
LINE PRODUCER JULIE CLARK HAIR AND MAKE-UP DESIGNER KAREN HARTLEY-THOMAS COSTUME DESIGNER CHARLOTTE WALTER CASTING BY MICHELLE GUISH AND REG POERSCOUT-EDGERTON CSA MUSIC BY ADRIAN JOHNSTON
EDITOR ADAM GREEN PRODUCTION DESIGNER WILL HUGHES-JONES DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY MATT GRAY PRODUCED BY SARAH BEARDSALL AND DOMINIC MINGHELLA WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY CHARLES STURRIDGE
Two Hour Feature
TWO MEN, ONE FACE
Matthew Rhys (Brothers & Sisters, The Americans) and
BAFTA and Emmy award-winning actress Dame Eileen Atkins
(Gosford Park, Robin Hood) star in this lavish adaptation
of Daphne du Maurier’s The Scapegoat.
Set in 1952 as Great Britain prepares for the coronation,
The Scapegoat tells the provocative story of two very different
men who have one thing in common - a face.
John Standing teaches Greek in a shabby prep school. Or at least
he did until yesterday. With his department unceremoniously
downsized, John decides to explore the continent in search of
culture, adventure, or anything that might take him away from the
crushing monotony of his life.
It is said that everybody has a doppelgänger somewhere in the
world. Held up changing trains, John goes to a bar – whereupon
he spots Johnny and feels a bolt of electricity. Johnny is his mirror
image; the likeness is uncanny. But while John is in search of human
connection, aristocratic landowner Johnny craves an escape from
his responsibilities. The two men spend the night in the same hotel.
But when John awakens the next morning, Johnny is nowhere to be
found and his driver wants to take John “home.” Some deep impulse
responds to the crack of opportunity, and John literally steps into
his double’s shoes.
John suddenly finds himself responsible for a beautiful young wife,
two mistresses, a morphine abusing mother, a precocious daughter,
a crumbling stately home and a nearly bankrupt business. Despite
his efforts to escape, he finds himself irresistibly drawn into Johnny’s
life - with fatal consequences.
The Scapegoat is a morally complex, darkly comic and suspenseful film
featuring a star turn from Matthew Rhys in the double role of John and
Johnny, as well as compelling performances from the ensemble cast.
Two Hour Feature
An Island Pictures Production
Producers:
Sarah Beardsall and Dominic Minghella
(Doc Martin, Robin Hood)
Director: Multi award-winning film and television director Charles Sturridge (Handful of Dust, Shackleton, Brideshead Revisited, Gulliver’s Travels)
Starring:
Matthew Rhys (Brothers & Sisters, The Edge of
Love), Alice Orr-Ewing, Andrew Scott (Sherlock), Jodhi May (Emma), Sylvie Testud
(La Vie en Rose), Sheridan Smith (Hysteria),
Eileen Atkins (Cranford, Cold Mountain)
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