Morvern Callar (film)

with Paul Popplewell Bryan Dick

Morvern Callar Samantha Morton is a young woman in a small port town in Scotland. She wakes on Christmas morning to discover that her boyfriend has committed suicide, leaving a suicide note, mix tape and the manuscript of his unpublished novel behind. His novel is dedicated to her and she decides to erase his name and puts her own name on the novel and sends it to the publisher recommended by her boyfriend. Instead of arranging a funeral with the money on his account, as requested by him, she cuts his body up and buries it in the mountains. With the money she then escapes her work stacking fruit in the groceries section of the local supermarket and goes to Almera, Costa del Sol, with her best friend Lanna Kathleen McDermott. As they go out and party she feels shes in a different mood than her and leaves her, also to be able to secretly meet the publishers who havent hesitated to come meet her in Spain. She plays the role of a writer and sells the novel for 100,000. Back in Scotland she tries to convince Lanna to come with her to the big world, but in Spain she has met a guy from Leeds who plans to visit her. Morvern collects her suitcase and goes to the train station.Morton won the 2002 British Independent Film Award for Best Actress for her role as Morvern. The movie also received the 2002 Scottish BAFTA Award for Best Actress Kathleen McDermott, the 2002 C.I.C.A.E. Award and the Award Of The Youth at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival. ........

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