Middletown Media

Liverpool Irish Film Festival

Middletown

24th October 2006, FACT

8pm

Set in Ireland, this atmospheric and explosive drama tells the tale of one cleric's chilling determination to rid a rural town of its corruption and sin. Preacher Gabriel (Matthew MacFadyen) returns home to Middletown and finds the town's inhabitants given over to vice and sin. Determined to save the souls of his flock, he sets about imposing a new order.

However, Gabriel's godly intentions mask a dark and malevolent heart with his damning sermons pitting neighbour against neighbour. Even Gabriel's own family are not free from attack - his younger brother Jim (Daniel Mays) and wife (Eva Birthistle) are first to suffer his moral crusade as Gabriel cannot bring the town back to the true path unless he achieves that for his own kin.

Middletown presents a haunting story of good versus evil. Has the preacher come to save them all from eternal damnation or condemn the parishioners to a life of hell? Directed by BAFTA-nominated Brian Kirk, produced by award-winning Michael Casey and written by hot new talent Daragh Carville, Middletown stars a stunning ensemble of Ireland's acting talent including Gerard McSorley, Mick Lally, David Wilmot, Frankie McCafferty, Bronagh Gallagher and Marie Jones.

The director Brian Park will introduce the film and be in conversation with filmmaker D W Mault after the film.

Tickets from FACT 88 Wood Street, Liverpool L1 4DQ
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Middletown Production Notes and Hi-Res Images

Visit the galleries to see the high res images. Here are the production notes in entirety.

Bord Scannán na hÉireann / The Irish Film Board, The Northern Ireland Film & Television Commission and Eclipse Pictures present A Green Park Films production in association with Chapter Four
- M I D D L E T O W N -
Starring
Matthew Macfadyen
Daniel MaysMiddletown Gabriel Hires
Eva Birthistle
Gerard McSorley
Written by Daragh Carville
Produced by Michael Casey
Directed by Brian Kirk
Running time: TBC
Certificate: 15a
For further information on this release please contact
Siobhán Farrell, Eclipse Pictures, 25 Hatch Place, Dublin 2
Tel: +353 1 634 0112; email: siobhan@eclipsepictures.ie
MIDDLETOWN WILL OPEN IN CINEMAS ACROSS IRELAND
AUTUMN 2006
- M I D D L E T O W N -

The Night of The Hunter meets The Crucible
A modern-day western about God, man and the madness in between. In the context of a single family, in a single place, it tackles the issues of the fundamental versus the secular which so dominate the world we live in today. Middletown is an explosive tale of the ambition and betrayal threatening to tear one family apart forever. If it was a song, Johnny Cash would have written it.


SHORT SYNOPSIS

Set in Ireland, this atmospheric and explosive drama tells the tale of one cleric's chilling determination to rid a rural town of its corruption and sin. Preacher Gabriel (Matthew Macfadyen) returns home to Middletown and finds the towns inhabitants given over to vice and sin. Determined to save the souls of his flock, he sets about imposing a new order... However, Gabriel's godly intentions mask a dark and malevolent heart with his damning sermons pitting neighbour against neighbour. Even Gabriel's own family are not free from attack - his younger brother Jim (Daniel Mays) and wife (Eva Birthistle) are first to suffer Gabriel's moral crusade as Gabriel cannot

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Middletown Receives a 15 Rating by BBFC

According to BBFC Middletown receives a 15 rating and is to open in the UK on November 24, 2006.

BBFC reference AFF229862
Category

MIDDLETOWN

Feature
Film
Classified 15 September, 2006 .Run Time 89m 5s

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