The arrival of the year 2000 marked a series of celebration in the world. England had big plans for the arrival of the millennium, so it was only fitting the organization for the awaited event fell in one of the country's most regarded P.R. men, Gideon Warner. Gideon, in much demand, begins work into what was going to be a spectacular display from a dome that was to be the center piece of the glittering night.
Gideon Warner did not come from the rich classes. As a matter of fact, he was a self made man. He has had many women in his life. As we meet him, he is living with one woman that is into the ritzy life in which Gideon moves. At one point, she comments they have received twenty seven invitations to different affairs in which his appearance is a must. Natasha, his only daughter, resents his father infidelities to her mother while she was living. In fact, Gideon committed the ultimate sin of not being by her bedside while a younger Natasha has to experience her demise because he was on the phone taking care of his personal business.
When the parents of a dead boy appear at his door demanding an explanation as to why he was killed, the target is one of Gideon's clients, a politician he has been advising on his image. The grieving father wants to make the man pay for what he perceives was the cause of death, but Gideon takes him back to his office, thus preventing a bigger confrontation. Stella, the mother of the boy, is not as aggressive. In fact, Stella is a free spirit who quickly transforms Gideon from the style of life into a caring human being, bringing him closer to Natasha in the process.
A television film directed by Stephen Poliakoff, was shown on a cable channel recently. It might have been distributed as a commercial feature, but we are not certain it was the case. The action takes place in 1997 and the death of Princess Diana is prominently shown as part as the action. The screenplay is by the director, who wanted perhaps to paint a broad canvas about that part of British society at the center of the action, which could well be the same as in America or other countries where the media is predominant in public affairs, and how it affects the people behind it.
Bill Nighy is Gideon Warner, walking as though in a fog throughout the film. Miranda Richardson appears as Stella, a much down to earth person completely the opposite from Gideon. Their romance seems a bit far fetched, at best. A blonde Emily Blunt plays Natasha, the young woman that has grown up resenting her father and all what he stands for. Robert Lindsay serves as the narrator, in a role that does not make much sense, but he is an actor that is welcome in anything because of his winning personality.
Gideon Warner did not come from the rich classes. As a matter of fact, he was a self made man. He has had many women in his life. As we meet him, he is living with one woman that is into the ritzy life in which Gideon moves. At one point, she comments they have received twenty seven invitations to different affairs in which his appearance is a must. Natasha, his only daughter, resents his father infidelities to her mother while she was living. In fact, Gideon committed the ultimate sin of not being by her bedside while a younger Natasha has to experience her demise because he was on the phone taking care of his personal business.
When the parents of a dead boy appear at his door demanding an explanation as to why he was killed, the target is one of Gideon's clients, a politician he has been advising on his image. The grieving father wants to make the man pay for what he perceives was the cause of death, but Gideon takes him back to his office, thus preventing a bigger confrontation. Stella, the mother of the boy, is not as aggressive. In fact, Stella is a free spirit who quickly transforms Gideon from the style of life into a caring human being, bringing him closer to Natasha in the process.
A television film directed by Stephen Poliakoff, was shown on a cable channel recently. It might have been distributed as a commercial feature, but we are not certain it was the case. The action takes place in 1997 and the death of Princess Diana is prominently shown as part as the action. The screenplay is by the director, who wanted perhaps to paint a broad canvas about that part of British society at the center of the action, which could well be the same as in America or other countries where the media is predominant in public affairs, and how it affects the people behind it.
Bill Nighy is Gideon Warner, walking as though in a fog throughout the film. Miranda Richardson appears as Stella, a much down to earth person completely the opposite from Gideon. Their romance seems a bit far fetched, at best. A blonde Emily Blunt plays Natasha, the young woman that has grown up resenting her father and all what he stands for. Robert Lindsay serves as the narrator, in a role that does not make much sense, but he is an actor that is welcome in anything because of his winning personality.