Screen time - large role throughout
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The older brother has been living in the same seaside town for his whole life. His career path is less ambitious than his brother, being satisfied with a simple administrative role, being very routine and straight forward, he never had the guts to do anything about it. He used to have an ambition to be a carpenter and work self-employed designing and producing furniture, but this never came to anything.
The story explores his sudden strength to not only help the abandoned girlfriend of his brother, but also to set his brother free from his coma and let him pass away.

Gender - Male
Caucasian
Age range - 25-30
Non regional accent preferably

A short drama about a man named Mark, who loses his brother in an accident and is blamed by the parents. His whole life is turned on its head and he becomes a recluse, loses his job, house and turns to alcohol and drugs. Until a woman turns up with a child. It turns out that she was the dead brother’s girlfriend and the child is his. Mark considers taking care of the two as his salvation, and also decides with the girlfriend, and then the father that they should allow the brother to pass away, to the dismay of the mother (who strongly disagrees and has been keeping him alive unnecessarily. Although the plot may seem a bit cliche, I feel very strongly about its message of how loneliness can induce depression, and that it doesn’t take much (in some cases) to overcome loneliness, but many people may not realise this.
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Screen time - large role at start, then in a coma for remainder of film (brief appearances).
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The younger brother has been living away in London working for an aviation company. Ever since he was a child he has been interested in flight, in particular the mechanics of helicopters. This led to him studying aviation technology and a career in helicopter design.
His relationship with his family is strong, and as they are of a similar age, has been best friends with his older brother since they were little. They have often socialised within the same groups, but more often just the two of them would go on holiday or on some sort of escapade by themselves.
Since he has moved away to London he has had less time to fool around as he used to, so when he goes home he is immediately up to his old antics with his brother. He has something important he wants to tell his brother, but before he gets the chance, he is suddenly hospitalised as a result of a tragic accident.

Gender - Male
Caucasian
Age range - 19-24
Non-regional accent preferably

A short drama about a man named Mark, who loses his brother in an accident and is blamed by the parents. His whole life is turned on its head and he becomes a recluse, loses his job, house and turns to alcohol and drugs. Until a woman turns up with a child. It turns out that she was the dead brother’s girlfriend and the child is his. Mark considers taking care of the two as his salvation, and also decides with the girlfriend, and then the father that they should allow the brother to pass away, to the dismay of the mother (who strongly disagrees and has been keeping him alive unnecessarily. Although the plot may seem a bit cliche, I feel very strongly about its message of how loneliness can induce depression, and that it doesn’t take much (in some cases) to overcome loneliness, but many people may not realise this.
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Screen time - large role from middle to end of film.
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An attractive and innocent looking young woman. Her home life has never been perfect, she and her siblings were raised by a single alcoholic mother. When she moves to the inner city of London to work, she meets a man who makes her forget all about her trouble back at home. She soon falls in love with him as well as falling pregnant with his child. However before her child is born, her man is taken away from her in a tragic accident.
She attends the funeral, the parents have not met her before and so she feels out of place, and stays out of the way. No one finds out her identity until her purse is discovered by Mark halfway through the film. This is when Mark discovers her and after an emotional scene they decide to help each other to gain closure from the tragedy (and mutually decide to let Tom pass away). She is then revealed (from the previous funeral scene) at the end, when we discover she was looking for Mark who then introduces her to the parents.

Gender - Female
Ethnicity does not matter
Age range - 19-25
Accent does not matter

A short drama about a man named Mark, who loses his brother in an accident and is blamed by the parents. His whole life is turned on its head and he becomes a recluse, loses his job, house and turns to alcohol and drugs. Until a woman turns up with a child. It turns out that she was the dead brother’s girlfriend and the child is his. Mark considers taking care of the two as his salvation, and also decides with the girlfriend, and then the father that they should allow the brother to pass away, to the dismay of the mother (who strongly disagrees and has been keeping him alive unnecessarily. Although the plot may seem a bit cliche, I feel very strongly about its message of how loneliness can induce depression, and that it doesn’t take much (in some cases) to overcome loneliness, but many people may not realise this.
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Screen time - Brief appearances, Start, middle and end of film.
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He has always been close to his two sons, and encouraged them to always do activities together, this probably the reason for their strong friendship. The boys have always looked up to their father, who in turn has treated them with respect. He has always been easily manipulated by his wife and at the time of his youngest son’s death, she convinced him that the oldest son was entirely to blame. At first he was sceptical, but the more she tried to convince him the more he would believe it. This led to the destruction of his relationship with the only son he had left. This is however rekindled at the end of the film when he is persuaded by Mark and Natalie to let him go. This is strongly against the mother’s will and means the father finally standing up for himself.

Gender - Male
Caucasian
Age range - 50-55
Non regional accent preferably

A short drama about a man named Mark, who loses his brother in an accident and is blamed by the parents. His whole life is turned on its head and he becomes a recluse, loses his job, house and turns to alcohol and drugs. Until a woman turns up with a child. It turns out that she was the dead brother’s girlfriend and the child is his. Mark considers taking care of the two as his salvation, and also decides with the girlfriend, and then the father that they should allow the brother to pass away, to the dismay of the mother (who strongly disagrees and has been keeping him alive unnecessarily. Although the plot may seem a bit cliche, I feel very strongly about its message of how loneliness can induce depression, and that it doesn’t take much (in some cases) to overcome loneliness, but many people may not realise this.
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Screen time - brief appearances at start, middle and end of film.

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She has always sympathised more with her youngest son and in a sense mollycoddled him much more than her oldest son. He has always been convinced that she prefers his younger brother over him, and not without rationale. She has always rated financial success as highly important, and has always shown more pride of her youngest son who studied for a degree and ended up working for a prestigious aviation company. When he died, she was quick to point the finger at her other son and soon spread the word through the family that it was his fault. Not all compassion for her son had been lost though, she never involved the authorities and pressed charges during the tragedy and afterwards when the others make the decision to turn off Tom’s Life Support.

Gender - female
Caucasian
Age range - 45-55
Non regional accent preferably

A short drama about a man named Mark, who loses his brother in an accident and is blamed by the parents. His whole life is turned on its head and he becomes a recluse, loses his job, house and turns to alcohol and drugs. Until a woman turns up with a child. It turns out that she was the dead brother’s girlfriend and the child is his. Mark considers taking care of the two as his salvation, and also decides with the girlfriend, and then the father that they should allow the brother to pass away, to the dismay of the mother (who strongly disagrees and has been keeping him alive unnecessarily. Although the plot may seem a bit cliche, I feel very strongly about its message of how loneliness can induce depression, and that it doesn’t take much (in some cases) to overcome loneliness, but many people may not realise this.
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Screen time - brief appearences throughout
Profile:
Throughout Mark’s depression, he almost starts to lose his mind. In this time he begins to hallucinate and a younger version of Tom appears to him. Tommy shows the innocence of childhood through his dialogue, and is always questioning why Mark does (or doesn’t do) things. Tommy is Mark’s torment, and he carries a broken wooden toy representing the idea in Mark’s head that he broke his little brother.

ethnicity - Caucasian
Non - regional accent preferred

A short drama about a man named Mark, who loses his brother in an accident and is blamed by the parents. His whole life is turned on its head and he becomes a recluse, loses his job, house and turns to alcohol and drugs. Until a woman turns up with a child. It turns out that she was the dead brother’s girlfriend and the child is his. Mark considers taking care of the two as his salvation, and also decides with the girlfriend, and then the father that they should allow the brother to pass away, to the dismay of the mother (who strongly disagrees and has been keeping him alive unnecessarily. Although the plot may seem a bit cliche, I feel very strongly about its message of how loneliness can induce depression, and that it doesn’t take much (in some cases) to overcome loneliness, but many people may not realise this.
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