Trojan Eddie: A Screen Play (Screen and Cinema)

by Billy Roche (Author), Billy Roche (Author), B. Roche (Author)

• Used

  Illustrated
  1997

  $23.31

  A major release from Initial films for Channel Four starring Stephen Rea and Richard Harris. Award-winning writer Billy Roche and director Gillies Mackinnon create a strange compelling world on the edge of society Eddie is a small-town hawker who dreams of a business of his own. Treated as little more than an errand boy by his employer John Power, the godfather of the local traveller community, his modest ambitions seem far beyond his grasp until Power becomes obsessed with a young traveller girl, Kathleen. On the night of their wedding Kathleen elopes with Power's nephew, Dermot, and GBP11,000 in dowry money. Eddy aids their escape and finds himself inextricably embroiled in the violent consequences... A feisty flavourful script from Billy Roche...Trojan Eddie will please audiences still in search of old-fashioned storytelling values Screen International

• New

  Paperback
  1998

  $20.90

  Sling Blade won the 1997 Academy Award for best original screenplay Karl has just been released from an asylum some twenty-five years after he committed a gruesome murder, returns to the town of his youth. His gentle manner and simple charm land him a job, and lead him into an unlikely friendship with a young boy and his widowed mother. But when the mother's abusive boyfriend appears, this simple man is thrust into a combustible situation that could have powerful, moving consequences for all.Billy Bob Thornton is one of Hollywood's most promising writer/directors, and Sling Blade was shown at the 1998 London Film Festival to great acclaim