Synopsis
When David, Juliet, and Alex are searching for a fourth roommate for their flat, they settle on the aloof Hugo. However, they soon find Hugo dead, with a large sum of cash being among his belongings. The three friends decide to keep the money, dismembering and burying Hugo's body. However, their newfound fortune begins to corrode their friendships, with each roommate resorting to manipulation tactics to scam the others out of the money.
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Cast
- Kerry FoxJuliet Miller
- Christopher EcclestonDavid Stephens
- Ewan McGregorAlex Law
- Ken StottDetective Inspector McCall
- Keith AllenHugo
- Colin McCredieCameron
- Peter MullanAndy
- Gary LewisVisitor
- Frances LowDoctor
- Robert David MacDonaldLumsden
Recommandations
- 100
Empire
This, the debut feature from acclaimed TV director Danny Boyle, is the best British thriller for years, a chilling and claustrophobic heart-stopper centring on a moral dilemma destined to fuel many a dinner party conversation. - 100
San Francisco Chronicle
In his big-screen directing debut, British film maker Danny Boyle demonstrates wit, intelligence and economy of style. - 80
Chicago Reader
This is a fairly accomplished first feature -perky, visually inventive, and unusually nast - 78
Austin Chronicle
Boyle, MacDonald, and Hodge honed this wonderful coupling of music, visuals, and clever words, as well as a strange affection for toy babies, in their first film. - 75
ReelViews
Taken as a whole, Shallow Grave is a reasonably enjoyable (for those captivated by this sort of thing) black comedy/noir thriller that justifies at least a portion of the praise being heaped upon it from overseas. - 67
Entertainment Weekly
Danny Boyle's glittering, deadpan, nihilistic little thriller. - 63
San Francisco Examiner
Smart and unsentimental as it is, Shallow Grave is more than a little forbidding. - 50
Chicago Sun-Times
All of the materials are in place for a film that might have pleased Orwell. But somehow they never come together.
