The Hawk (film)

Infobox Film
name = The Hawk


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director = David Hayman
producer = Eileen Quinn
Ann Wingate
writer = Peter Ransley
starring = Daryl Webster
Thomas Taplin
Joshua Taplin
David Harewood
Clive Russell
Pooky Quesnel
Marie Hamer
Helen Mirren
music = Nick Bicât
cinematography = Andrew Dunn
editing = Justin Krish
distributor = Castle Hill Productions Inc.
released = 10 December 1993
runtime = 88 minutes (approx.)
country = United Kingdom
language = English
budget =
gross =
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imdb_id = 0107088

"The Hawk" is a 1993 British film starring Helen Mirren, George Costigan, Rosemary Leach, Owen Teale and Melanie Hill.

ynopsis

The film tells the story of a serial killer, known by the police as The Hawk, who prays on women in the North of England. He sexuall assalts the victims before striking them with a hammer and picking out their insides, like a hawk, hence his nickname.

Meanwhile Annie Marsh (Helen Mirren) is a housewife living in the area of where the killings are taking place, with her husband, Stephen (George Costigan) and their two young children. Stephen is often away on business, but Annie soon notcies that he is away whenever the killer strikes. To make matters worse, Annie was once sectioned due to mental illness. Is she crazy? Or is her husband a knife-weilding murderer?

External links

[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107088/ "The Hawk"] at the Internet Movie Database