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- For its sins, Shallow Grave does occasionally wallow in its tacky grand guignol excesses, but Boyle's off-the-wall, energetic direction and Hodge's twisted humour makes up for its occasional lapses, and overall it offers a compelling and satisfying movie experience, albeit one that is ever so slightly unnerving.
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"Shallow Grave" does not supply a perfect murder by Orwell's standards - the first victim kills himself with drugs before his nasty new roommates can form any designs on him. But it qualifies in many other ways.
When accountant David (Christopher Eccleston), doctor Juliet (Kerry Fox) and journalist Alex (Ewan McGregor) are searching for a fourth roommate for their trendy flat, they settle on the aloof ...
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Feb 10, 1995 · Three roommates believe they've found the perfect fourth person to share their home. But almost immediately after moving in they find him dead in his bedroom from a massive drug overdose. Even stranger, they find a suitcase full of money under his bed.
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SHALLOW GRAVE is a mean spirited, cold-blooded Scottish thriller, stylishly directed with three interesting performances from EWAN McGREGOR, KERRY FOX and CHRISTOPHER ECCLESTON, as roommates with a deadly secret--a fourth roommate who died in bed with a trunk full of money hidden underneath the bed.
Shallow Grave is a 1994 British black comedy crime film directed by Danny Boyle, in his feature directorial debut, and starring Ewan McGregor, Christopher Eccleston, and Kerry Fox. Its plot follows a group of flatmates in Edinburgh who set off a chain of events after dismembering and burying a mysterious new tenant who died and left behind a ...
Jan 24, 2001 · Brilliantly combining Grand Guignol horror with gallows humour, shocking violence, and bold stylistic flourishes, "Shallow Grave" proved Quentin Tarantino didn't have the monopoly on dark...
Jun 13, 2012 · Shallow Grave was widely acclaimed, and not only at Dinard. It also won the BAFTA for best British film, along with a shoal of other awards, and was hailed as an exhilarating breakthrough for British cinema.
