Jackie is a CCTV operator. One day, a man shows his face on her monitor, a man she hoped never to see again. Now she has no choice and is compelled to confront him.
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Sep 20247/10
"Jackie" (Kate Dickie) has a job supervising an array of CCTV cameras monitoring the city overnight. It's pretty dull work watching the drunks go home, or keeping an eye out for the opportunistic criminals who share Glasgow's streets during the wee small hours with the foxes that scavenge the waste ground. One morning, she espies a couple in flagrante delicto up against the wall of the Jet garage and she thinks she recognises the man. A bit more investigation and she discovers that this is, indeed, "Clyde" (Tony Curran). She becomes more and more obsessed with this man, and swiftly we appreciate that she has some unfinished business with him. She develops quite a cunning plan and sets about implementing a sting operation with quite a devious twist - one that she hopes will offer her some closure and a degree of retribution for his actions past. Gradually we become aware of just what did happen, but the presentation avoids making it a simple good v. evil style story, but actually one as much about redemption and maybe even forgiveness. Dickie holds it together well enough but maybe she's left to do a bit too much of the heavy lifting as neither Curran nor Martin Compston's "Stevie"
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Cast
- Kate DickieJackie
- Tony CurranClyde Henderson
- Martin CompstonStevie
- Natalie PressApril
- Paul HigginsAvery
- John ComerfordMan with Dog
- Andrew ArmourAlfred
- Carolyn CalderCleaner
- Martin McCardieAngus
- Jessica AngusBronwyn
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- Andrea ArnoldDirector
- Anders Thomas JensenWriter
- Andrea ArnoldWriter
- Lone ScherfigWriter
- Robbie RyanDirector of Photography
- Glenn GregoryOriginal Music Composer
- Nicolas ChaudeurgeEditor
- Carrie ComerfordProducer
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