Country: UK
Year: 1991
Duration: 19'


The private lives of a man, a woman, their dog and the neighbour's rabbit,

"Weak and Wide Astray underpins that all important conflict of the firsthand experience (life as unique to oneself) with the received secondhand experience (life as it is told to us)." (Tom Paine)

Biography

film director

Tom Paine

Tom Paine born in 1952 in Kenya, Africa; learnt filmmaking when he was 17 drove Edinburgh City buses for six years and is a founder member of BUY (BUY is the corporate name of an art forum of disparate members). His films and writings focus on the spirited mechanisms human beings employ to over-ride the inherent dangers, bias. tedium and tragedies of life.

Cast

& Credits

Director and screenplay: Tom Paine.
Director of photography: Simon Archer.
Music: John Eacott.
Editor: Jo Ann Kaplan.
Cast: Dougray Scott, Amanda King, Virginia Courtney, Henk Huffener.
Production company and Italian distribution: BFI Production, 29 Rathbone Street, London W1P 1AG, tel. 6365587, fax 5809456.
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