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Pelican Blood is a 2010 film which premiered at the 2010 Edinburgh Film Festival. It is a low-budget film, shot in a freewheeling style, directed by Karl Golden, adapted from Cris Freddi's novel by Cris Cole. The two main protagonists, Nikko (Harry Treadaway), and Stevie (Emma Booth), are self-destructive people who have met through a suicide website. Nikko has an obsessive compulsive personality.
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| Directed by | Karl Golden |
| Written by | Cris Cole |
| Based on | Pelican Blood by Cris Freddi |
| Produced by | Robert Bernstein Douglas Rae John McDonnell |
| Starring | Arthur Darvill Oona Chaplin Harry Treadaway Emma Booth |
| Cinematography | Darran Tiernan |
| Edited by | Martin Brinkler |
| Music by | Niall Byrne |
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Running time | 94 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
"Pelican Blood is a fraught drama about youthful angst and rebelliousness set (very incongruously) in the world of birdwatching... that evokes memories of Trainspotting...[It] doesn't really hang together. None the less, there is enough raw talent here to enable the film to take wing."[1]
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