Christian Cooke
Harry McEntire
Madeleine Clark

Unconditional

Love…
on one
condition

Slamdance Film Festival Special Screening

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Synopsis

UNCONDITIONAL is a darkly humorous psycho-romance about 16-year old twins OWEN and KRISTEN who are so wrapped up in their own world that they’re misfits in the real one. They spend their days caring for their disabled mum MAUREEN. It’s actually fun although they long for escape. And along comes LIAM – 20s, tough, charming, full velocity, genuinely cool. Kristen fancies him with the intensity of someone in a fairytale. Then Liam takes Owen out drinking. Owen knows as much about pubs as Kristen does about men. They go back to Liam’s flat where he pulls out a set of designer women’s clothes and, “just for a laugh”, gets Owen to wear them. It’s a Cinderella moment. Owen finds Liam and the world instantly attracted to him. Liam isn’t a monster, he’s a romantic, offering unconditional love, on one condition: Owen takes his sister Kristen’s name and identity.

But the wiring in Liam’s head is further out than Owen thought: he veers between adoration and menace, increasingly trying to exorcise Owen from his invention. When Owen tries to escape Liam kidnaps ‘Kristen’ and books them into seaside honeymoon suite where a surreal, frightening but painfully funny climax plays out…

UNCONDITIONAL - “Love…on one condition”

Press & Publicity

"...an impressively made and darkly disturbing drama, nicely scripted and impressively shot [...]. It offers up a delightfully skewed look at that dramatic chliché of obsessive love, with Christian Cooke and Harry McEntire intensely watchable as their strange romance develops."

Screen International Review

"Raw unpredictability... Christian Cooke is charismatic and compelling"

Film Threat

"Fantastic"

Chris Collins, BFI Film Fund

"Beautifully directed"

Hilary Salmon, Executive Producer, BBC Drama

"Cinematic, gripping and ugly-beautiful"

Tom Harvey, CEO, Northern Film & Media

"Bravura breakthrough performances"

Nick Love, Vertigo Films

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