Sean Bean as John Dawson in RED RIDING 1983 directed by Anand Tucker. Photo Credit: Phil Fisk. An IFC Films release.
Also Starring:
- Jim Carter
- Shaun Dooley
- Sean Harris
- John Henshaw
- Gerard Kearns
- Daniel Mays
- Tony Mooney
- Peter Mullan
- Tony Pitts
- Saskia Reeves
- Steven Robertson
- Cara Seymour
- Robert Sheehan
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Red Riding: 1983 (2010)
Also Known As: Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1983
Opened: 02/05/2010 Limited
| Limited | 02/05/2010 | |
| IFC Center | 02/12/2010 - 02/25/2010 | 14 days |
| Music Box Thea... | 03/12/2010 - 03/18/2010 | 7 days |
| DVD | 08/31/2010 |
Trailer: Click for trailer
Genre: British Thriller
Rated: Unrated
Short Synopsis
RED RIDING - 1983 (Directed by Anand Tucker) starts with the kidnapping of another young girl. Detective Maurice Jobson (David Morrissey) notices a number of powerful similarities to the abduction cases he had investigated back in the '70s--and for which a man was convicted and sentenced. Meanwhile, a reluctant local solicitor, John Piggott (Mark Addy), decides to take up the condemned man's cause.
Long Synopsis
Detective Chief Superintendent Maurice Jobson "the Owl" takes a press conference about the disappearance of Morley schoolgirl Hazel Atkins, a ten year old who's gone missing on her way home from school. The press are drawing comparisons with the disappearance of Clare Kemplay, found brutally murdered in 1974, a case which Jobson also worked on with his then boss Bill Molloy, "the Badger."
Office-less solicitor John Piggott takes an urn with his mum's ashes back to her house in Fitzwilliam. While he is there, his mother's neighbour, Mrs Myshkin, begs him to see her son Michael, who was imprisoned eight years ago for the murder of Clare Kemplay, she claims wrongly. Piggott goes to see him and finds him very disturbed, repeating over and over, "It was the Wolf." Piggott tells Michael's mother that he can't organise an appeal for someone who pleaded guilty. She regrets that he was forced to follow the advice of his then solicitor, Clive McGuiness.
Meanwhile, a young man is released from Prison, BJ. He takes a bus to Preston and hunts out a hidden shotgun from a locked up garage.
Dick Alderman and Jobson are sent to meet a local medium, Mandy Wymer. In a séance Mandy hints that the disappearance of Hazel is linked to that of other girls in the area and Jobson subsequently trawls back through the old Clare Kemplay files. He remembers how during that investigation he and Molloy discovered incriminating evidence on local Fitzwilliam vicar Martin Laws but they were forced to drop the lead when Laws was given an alibi by local property developer John Dawson, with whom they and other senior police shared business interests.
Convinced by now that Hazel must be dead, the police pull in Leonard Cole, who found the corpse of Clare Kemplay in 1974, on a building site in Fitzwilliam. Alderman and Prentice torture Cole so brutally that Jobson can't watch.
Mary Cole goes with Martin Laws to Piggott's flat to beg him to represent her son Leonard, who she knows is innocent. Cole and Laws were also Piggott's neighbours while he was growing up in Fitzwilliam. But by the time Piggott and Mary Cole arrive at the Police Station, Leonard Cole is dead -- they're told that he hung himself.
Jobson, disturbed by Wymer's further psychic convictions, follows up a lead in Castleford, but his boss Chief Constable Angus is furious that he won't tow the line and just lay Hazel's abduction and suspected murder on Leonard now he's dead.
BJ approaches Fitzwilliam, images of himself as a young boy flashing before his eyes.
After discovering more about Myshkin before his arrest from Leonard's longstanding girlfriend Tessa, Piggott goes back once more to see him. He is now in the hospital ward of the prison as he has been refusing food. Myshkin reveals to Piggott that his dad was the 'Wolf's friend.'
And Piggott is jolted into a remembrance of his dad's suicide a few years before and starts to piece the puzzle together. He heads back to Fitzwilliam, where someone is waiting.
