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| name = True Love (Once Removed)
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| image = File:True_Love_(Once_Removed)_Film_Festival_Poster.jpg
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| caption = True Love (Once Removed) Sacramento Film Festival Promotional Poster, 2004
| caption = True Love (Once Removed) Sacramento Film Festival Promotional Poster, 2004
| director = Kevin Thomas
| director = Kevin Thomas<ref>{{cite web |url= http://banditsproduction.com/director/kevin-thomas/|title= Kevin Thomas}}</ref>
| producer = Phillippa Thomas <br> Liefer B. Daffinsson
| producer = Phillippa Thomas<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2865408/|title= Phillipa Thomas|accessdate= 9 December 2018}}</ref> <br> Liefer B. Daffinsson
| writer = {{IMDb name|3458245|Debbie Moon}}
| writer = [[Debbie Moon]]
| starring = [[Sean Harris]] <br> [[Philip Jackson (actor)|Philip Jackson]] <br> Sigurdur Skúlason <br> Harpa Ellertsdottir <br> {{IMDB name|5831363|Abigail Rosser}}
| starring = [[Sean Harris]] <br> [[Philip Jackson (actor)|Philip Jackson]] <br> Sigurdur Skúlason<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1146296/ |title= Sigurður Skúlason|accessdate= 9 December 2018}}</ref> <br> Harpa Ellertsdottir <br> Abigail Rosser
| music = Overlap<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.overlap.co.uk/Overlap_About_Events%26Releases.htm |title= Overlap: About Events and Releases |website= Overlap |url-status= bot: unknown |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20131203151627/http://www.overlap.co.uk/Overlap_About_Events%26Releases.htm |archivedate= 3 December 2013 |df= dmy-all }}</ref>
| music = Overlap
| cinematography = {{IMDb name|1637593|Bob Pendar-Hughes}}
| cinematography = Bob Pendar-Hughes
| editing = {{IMDb name|0245824|Bryan Dyke}}
| editing = Bryan Dyke
| studio = Thomas Thomas Films
| studio = Thomas Thomas Films<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.thomasthomasfilms.co.uk/#/Directors/KevinThomas |title= Thomas Thomas Films}}</ref>
| released = {{Film date|2002|||United Kingdom}}
| released = {{Film date|df=yes|2002|||United Kingdom}}
| runtime = 35 minutes
| runtime = 35 minutes
| country = United Kingdom
| country = United Kingdom
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{{DISPLAYTITLE:''True Love (Once Removed)''}}
{{DISPLAYTITLE:''True Love (Once Removed)''}}
''''''True Love (Once Removed)''''' is a British [[drama]] directed by Director, Kevin Thomas,<ref name="banditsproduction">{{citeweb |url= http://banditsproduction.com/en/realisateur/thomas-kevin |title= Bandits Productions, Kevin Thomas Films}}</ref> from the [[United Kingdom]], based on an original screen play. The film stars [[Sean Harris]], [[Philip Jackson (actor)|Philip Jackson]], Sigurdur Skúlason, Harpa Ellertsdottir and Abigail Rosser.
'''''True Love (Once Removed)''''' is a British [[drama]] directed by Kevin Thomas and starring [[Sean Harris]], [[Philip Jackson (actor)|Philip Jackson]], Sigurdur Skúlason, Harpa Ellertsdottir and Abigail Rosser.<ref name="banditsproduction">{{cite web |url= http://banditsproduction.com/en/realisateur/thomas-kevin |title= Bandits Productions, Kevin Thomas Films |url-status= dead |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20131203015438/http://banditsproduction.com/en/realisateur/thomas-kevin |archivedate= 3 December 2013 |df= dmy-all }}</ref> It is based on an original screen play. It is a film about the belief in a fated destiny vs. the free will to form a future.

== Plot ==
== Plot ==
Steven, played by ''[[Sean Harris]]'', lives in an isolated fishing village. He is a fish gutter who must appear at the docks every morning where gutters are selected according to the day’s need. His meager earnings are spent on viewing his future in an illegal time machine. These time machines have been outlawed due to the consequences their use have brought when one believes in a future viewed in a time machine. Steven lives alone, but he knows he will be loved and who the woman will be. However, his love is now Bryony Lafferty, an 8-year old girl. Steven is not a pedophile. He is in love with Bryony of the future – an adult woman he sees in the time booth and who tells him that she loves him. Adult Bryony will become a nurse when she grows up–a psychiatric nurse.
Steven, played by ''[[Sean Harris]]'', lives in an isolated fishing village. He is a fish gutter who uses his meager earnings to view his future in illegal time machine. These time machines have been outlawed by the government due to their unintended consequences. Steven knows someday he will be loved and the woman will be-a psychiatric nurse in his future. However, his love is presently Bryony Lafferty, an 8-year-old girl. He is only in love with the adult Bryony.


Steven hints about the future with a bus driver. Steven realizes that the bus driver also uses the time booths and the driver’s experience has not shown a happy outcome for the bus driver and his wife; she will soon have an affair with her boss—or so the bus driver has been led to believe by the time booth. Steven tells the driver that the bus driver should not worry, as the future may not happen (which, of course, Steven does not really believe). The driver, angry and cynical, tells Steven the same. Now, Steven is easily swayed to believe his future may not come about with adult Bryony, by his own words. Nevertheless, Steven is growing impatient because he has a long time to wait before Bryony will become a woman. When Steven discovers the family is selling the house and moving away he is upset. He will never meet Bryony if the family moves away.
Steven hints about the future with a local bus driver. Steven realizes that the bus driver also uses the illegal time booths but the driver's experience has shown an unhappy outcome for the bus driver's marriage. Steven tells the driver that the bus driver should not worry, as the future may not happen. Steven, of course, does not really believe this. The bus driver, angry and cynical, tells Steven the same can happen to Steven's own future. This unsettles Steven. Steven is also growing impatient because he has a long time to wait before Bryony will become a woman. When Steven discovers that Bryony's family is selling their home and moving away he is frantic.


Steven sees a psychiatrist on an occasional basis, but he is at odds with advice because he wants concurrence. The psychiatrist tries to impress on Steven that there is no fate–it is the choices we make that determine our future.
Steven sees a psychiatrist on an occasional basis, but he is at odds with advice because he only wants concurrence. The psychiatrist is unable to impress upon Steven that it is the choices we make that determine our future—not a machine.


When Steven discovers that the father's job has fallen through and that Bryony’s family is not moving away, he is elated. He now tells the bus driver that nothing changes; the future cannot be altered. The bus driver is now upset because the bus driver will lose his wife to her boss very soon. The bus driver goes off, getting very drunk. The bus driver’s wife is working at a petrol station. Her husband confronts her and starts beating her, pouring gasoline down her throat.
When Steven discovers that Bryony's family is not moving away, he begins working on a plan. Steven tells the bus driver that nothing changes; the future cannot be altered, as proof since Bryony's family will not move away. The bus driver becomes more agitated, believing his marriage is doomed, as predicted. The bus driver goes off, getting very drunk. The bus driver confronts his wife over this predicted affair that only he has viewed. He beats her, pouring petrol down her throat in punishment for a "future" only he "knows."


Steven sets his plan in motion to get Bryony alone, but does not touch her. He apologizes and tells her that when they are together it will be wonderful, in the future. He frightens her into screaming. Steven tells himself that what will happen to him (enforced incarceration in a psychiatric hospital) will put him in place so that he can meet Bryony as a nurse. Bryony’s parents come to the police station to take her home after her encounter with Steven.
Steven sets his plan in motion to get Bryony alone, but does not touch her. He apologizes and tells her that when they are together it will be wonderful, but only in the future. Steven tells himself that what will happen to him (enforced incarceration in a psychiatric hospital) will put him in place so that he can meet Bryony as a future nurse. Steven is arrested and Bryony's parents arrive police station to take her home.


The psychiatrist comes to see Steven at the police station where he has been arrested. The psychiatrist knows that Steven is not a pedophile and that Steven created a faked attempt to get himself placed in psychiatric care. Steven begs the psychiatrist to say the right words that will keep him confined.
The psychiatrist comes to see Steven at the police station. The psychiatrist knows that Steven is not a pedophile, but that Steven uses the illegal time machines and then created a faked attempt upon Bryony to get placed into psychiatric care. Steven begs the psychiatrist to say the right words that will get him confined.


The news comes on the television with a report about the attack on the woman at the petrol station. Her employer is now constantly at her bedside while she recovers. What the driver feared, he has made come true. However, the news also reports that in a further tragic set of circumstances, the drunken bus driver has crashed into Bryony’s parents’ car as they were taking her home from the police station.
The news comes on the television with a report about the attack on the woman at the petrol station. Her employer is now constantly at her bedside while she recovers; the bus driver's future is now completed, as predicted. However, the news also reports that the drunken bus driver has crashed into Bryony's parents’ car as they were taking her home from the police station after her Steven confronted her.


The psychiatrist rushes to the police station to see Steven, but does not tell Steven about the crash. Steven is taken to psychiatric confinement, satisfied that he has attained the step he needs to be placed in Bryony’s future. But, Steven's true love is tragically dead; there is no such thing as fate.
The psychiatrist, seeing the news, rushes to the police station to see Steven, but Steven is being sent to a facility and the psychiatrist does not tell Steven of the accident with the bus. Steven is taken to psychiatric confinement, satisfied that he has attained the first step he needs to be placed in Bryony's future. However, Steven's true love has tragically died in the accident with the bus, caused by the events set in motion by Steven's plan to be with her in his distant future.


== Cast ==
== Cast ==


* {{IMDb name|0365317|Sean Harris}}, as Steven.
* [[Sean Harris]], as Steven.
* {{IMDb name|413946|Philip Jackson}}, the as Bus Driver.
* Philip Jackson, as the bus driver.
* Sigurdur Skulason, as the psychiatrist.<ref>{{citeweb | url= http://sigurdurskulason.com/Siggi_Sk/CV_Enska.html |title= Sigurður Skúlason}}</ref>
* Sigurdur Skulason, as the psychiatrist.<ref>{{cite web | url= http://sigurdurskulason.com/Siggi_Sk/CV_Enska.html |title= Sigurður Skúlason}}</ref>
* {{IMDb name|5831363|Abigail Rosser}}, as adult Bryony
* Harpa Ellertsdottir as 8-year old Bryony
* Abigail Rosser, as adult Bryony


== Production ==
== Production ==
Production for this film was by Thomas Thomas Films.<ref>{{citeweb |url= http://www.thomasthomasfilms.co.uk/#/Directors/KevinThomas |title= Thomas Thomas Films}}</ref>
Production for this film was by Thomas Thomas Films.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.thomasthomasfilms.co.uk/#/Directors/KevinThomas |title= Thomas Thomas}}</ref>


== Filming ==
=== Filming ===
Primary location filming was done in Iceland, with studio work in the UK.<ref name="www.filmthreat">{{citeweb |url= http://www.filmthreat.com/festivals/1568/ |title= These Palm Springs Shorts are the Best |website= Film Threat}}</ref>
Primary location filming was done in Iceland, with studio work in the UK.<ref name="www.filmthreat">{{cite web|url= http://www.filmthreat.com/festivals/1568/|title= These Palm Springs Shorts are the Best|website= Film Threat|url-status= bot: unknown|archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20131203043645/http://www.filmthreat.com/festivals/1568/|archivedate= 3 December 2013|df= dmy-all}}</ref>


== Awards ==
== Awards ==
Won Best Live Action Short Film over 15 minutes in length at the Palm Springs Film Festival.<ref name="www.filmthreat" /> and Best Short Film at the Houston Film Festival as well as being selected for Clermont Ferrand, London Raindance and LA Short Film Festival and qualifying for Oscar nomination.<ref>{{citeweb |url= http://www.overlap.co.uk/Overlap_About_Events&Releases.htm |title= Overlap: About Events and Releases |website= Overlap}}</ref> Made eligible for the 2004 Academy Awards where it was shortlisted.<ref name="banditsproduction" />
Won Best Live Action Short Film over 15 minutes in length at the Palm Springs Film Festival,<ref name="www.filmthreat" /> and Best Short Film at the Houston Film Festival as well as being selected for Clermont Ferrand, London Raindance and LA Short Film Festival and qualifying for Oscar nomination. Made eligible for the 2004 Academy Awards where it was shortlisted.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.thomasthomasfilms.co.uk/work/true-love-once-removed-35 |title= True Love (Once Removed)}}</ref>

== References ==
== References ==
{{reflist|2}}
{{reflist|2}}


== External links ==
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* {{IMDb title|5105310}}

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Latest revision as of 23:31, 3 December 2024

True Love (Once Removed)
True Love (Once Removed) Sacramento Film Festival Promotional Poster, 2004
Directed byKevin Thomas[1]
Written byDebbie Moon
Produced byPhillippa Thomas[2]
Liefer B. Daffinsson
StarringSean Harris
Philip Jackson
Sigurdur Skúlason[3]
Harpa Ellertsdottir
Abigail Rosser
CinematographyBob Pendar-Hughes
Edited byBryan Dyke
Music byOverlap[4]
Production
company
Thomas Thomas Films[5]
Release date
  • 2002 (2002) (United Kingdom)
Running time
35 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

True Love (Once Removed) is a British drama directed by Kevin Thomas and starring Sean Harris, Philip Jackson, Sigurdur Skúlason, Harpa Ellertsdottir and Abigail Rosser.[6] It is based on an original screen play. It is a film about the belief in a fated destiny vs. the free will to form a future.

Plot

[edit]

Steven, played by Sean Harris, lives in an isolated fishing village. He is a fish gutter who uses his meager earnings to view his future in illegal time machine. These time machines have been outlawed by the government due to their unintended consequences. Steven knows someday he will be loved and the woman will be-a psychiatric nurse in his future. However, his love is presently Bryony Lafferty, an 8-year-old girl. He is only in love with the adult Bryony.

Steven hints about the future with a local bus driver. Steven realizes that the bus driver also uses the illegal time booths but the driver's experience has shown an unhappy outcome for the bus driver's marriage. Steven tells the driver that the bus driver should not worry, as the future may not happen. Steven, of course, does not really believe this. The bus driver, angry and cynical, tells Steven the same can happen to Steven's own future. This unsettles Steven. Steven is also growing impatient because he has a long time to wait before Bryony will become a woman. When Steven discovers that Bryony's family is selling their home and moving away he is frantic.

Steven sees a psychiatrist on an occasional basis, but he is at odds with advice because he only wants concurrence. The psychiatrist is unable to impress upon Steven that it is the choices we make that determine our future—not a machine.

When Steven discovers that Bryony's family is not moving away, he begins working on a plan. Steven tells the bus driver that nothing changes; the future cannot be altered, as proof since Bryony's family will not move away. The bus driver becomes more agitated, believing his marriage is doomed, as predicted. The bus driver goes off, getting very drunk. The bus driver confronts his wife over this predicted affair that only he has viewed. He beats her, pouring petrol down her throat in punishment for a "future" only he "knows."

Steven sets his plan in motion to get Bryony alone, but does not touch her. He apologizes and tells her that when they are together it will be wonderful, but only in the future. Steven tells himself that what will happen to him (enforced incarceration in a psychiatric hospital) will put him in place so that he can meet Bryony as a future nurse. Steven is arrested and Bryony's parents arrive police station to take her home.

The psychiatrist comes to see Steven at the police station. The psychiatrist knows that Steven is not a pedophile, but that Steven uses the illegal time machines and then created a faked attempt upon Bryony to get placed into psychiatric care. Steven begs the psychiatrist to say the right words that will get him confined.

The news comes on the television with a report about the attack on the woman at the petrol station. Her employer is now constantly at her bedside while she recovers; the bus driver's future is now completed, as predicted. However, the news also reports that the drunken bus driver has crashed into Bryony's parents’ car as they were taking her home from the police station after her Steven confronted her.

The psychiatrist, seeing the news, rushes to the police station to see Steven, but Steven is being sent to a facility and the psychiatrist does not tell Steven of the accident with the bus. Steven is taken to psychiatric confinement, satisfied that he has attained the first step he needs to be placed in Bryony's future. However, Steven's true love has tragically died in the accident with the bus, caused by the events set in motion by Steven's plan to be with her in his distant future.

Cast

[edit]
  • Sean Harris, as Steven.
  • Philip Jackson, as the bus driver.
  • Sigurdur Skulason, as the psychiatrist.[7]
  • Harpa Ellertsdottir as 8-year old Bryony
  • Abigail Rosser, as adult Bryony

Production

[edit]

Production for this film was by Thomas Thomas Films.[8]

Filming

[edit]

Primary location filming was done in Iceland, with studio work in the UK.[9]

Awards

[edit]

Won Best Live Action Short Film over 15 minutes in length at the Palm Springs Film Festival,[9] and Best Short Film at the Houston Film Festival as well as being selected for Clermont Ferrand, London Raindance and LA Short Film Festival and qualifying for Oscar nomination. Made eligible for the 2004 Academy Awards where it was shortlisted.[10]

References

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  1. ^ "Kevin Thomas".
  2. ^ "Phillipa Thomas". Retrieved 9 December 2018.
  3. ^ "Sigurður Skúlason". Retrieved 9 December 2018.
  4. ^ "Overlap: About Events and Releases". Overlap. Archived from the original on 3 December 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  5. ^ "Thomas Thomas Films".
  6. ^ "Bandits Productions, Kevin Thomas Films". Archived from the original on 3 December 2013.
  7. ^ "Sigurður Skúlason".
  8. ^ "Thomas Thomas".
  9. ^ a b "These Palm Springs Shorts are the Best". Film Threat. Archived from the original on 3 December 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  10. ^ "True Love (Once Removed)".
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