Summaries

A ruling class sociopath kills a working class girl in a hit and run and uses a deck of playing cards to determine his fate.

Poster boy for the ruling class, Charlie Barnum has it all, the perfect wife, the property portfolio and the loyalty of his best friend. The fact that Charlie requires Viagra to have sex with his wife, is losing his properties, and has seduced his best friend's wife, means nothing to Charlie, because Charlie is living on dangerously borrowed time. An innocent working class girl is killed in a hit and run, and, as the blood pours from her injuries, Charlie, the man who knocked her down, consults his deck of playing cards and chooses to abdicate responsibility for all future deeds. Lies become truths, reality becomes fantasy, and, as Charlie embroils the three comfortable couples in the ugly excesses and sanctimonious prejudices of his new found power, they discover some deeply disturbing truths about each other. Employing dangerously subversive, provocatively dark, and satirically disturbing humor, Charlie Casanova re-imagines Billy Liar and Walter Mitty as a sickeningly compelling anti-hero, delving deep into the psychologically disturbing, shallowly suicidal, degenerately greedy needs of a group of moneyed people who had it all, threw it all away, then decided to blame the entire working class.—Terry McMahon

Details

Keywords
  • male nudity
  • male full frontal nudity
  • psychopath
  • male frontal nudity
  • pushed from a rooftop
Genres
  • Thriller
  • Crime
  • Drama
Release date May 10, 2012
Motion Picture Rating (MPA) Not Rated
Countries of origin Ireland
Language English
Filming locations Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland
Production companies Source Productions

Box office

Budget $937
Gross worldwide $5401

Tech specs

Runtime 1h 34m
Color Color
Sound mix Dolby SR
Aspect ratio

Synopsis

A ruling class sociopath kills a girl in a hit-and-run and uses a deck of playing cards to determine his fate. CHARLIE CASANOVA : You don't know him but he already hates you.

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