Flashbacks of a Fool

Infobox Film
name = Flashbacks of a Fool


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director = Baillie Walsh
producer = Lene Bausager
writer = Baillie Walsh
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starring = Daniel Craig
Felicity Jones
Harry Eden
Eve
Emilia Fox
music = Richard Hartley
cinematography = John Mathieson
editing = Struan Clay
distributor = Buena Vista International
released = April 13 2008
runtime = 84 min
country = United Kingdom
United States
Australia
language = English
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imdb_id = 1037218

"Flashbacks of a Fool" is a 2008 British drama film about a Hollywood actor who reflects upon his life following the death of his best friend. The film was directed by Baillie Walsh, and stars Daniel Craig, Felicity Jones, Harry Eden, Claire Forlani, Emilia Fox and Eve.

Film

ynopsis

Daniel Craig stars as Joe, a self-destructive British actor living in California and trapped in a mundane cycle of excess. News of the death of a childhood friend, and the sudden collapse of his movie career, pushes Joe over the edge, and he attempts suicide by throwing himself into the ocean.

Drifting in the Pacific, we are taken back to Joe's teenage years in a sleepy English hamlet. We learn of Joe's relationship with Evelyn, a relationship which ended in tragedy and forced him to flee home for a new life.

Back in the present, Joe is washed up on a beach and decides to confront his demons. He returns to England too late to attend his friend's funeral and, in conversation with his sister, discovers it is also too late to confront Evelyn, as her decapitated head was stolen by a fox.

Joe gives his childhood friend's widow a cheque, and returns to the US.

Trivia

*The film was mainly shot in Cape Town, South Africa.

Music

The song when John is dancing with Ruth and in the end of the movie is If There Is Something, sung by Bryan Ferry.

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