Saxon (film)

Saxon is a 2007 independent British film.

London, the present. Soon after leaving prison, Fast Eddie has his eye cut out by a loan shark chasing an old debt. Eddies other eye will only be spared upon repayment. Desperate for cash, Eddie phones Linda, a childhood sweetheart. She lives in SAXON a ghosttown of grim flats run by a corrupt council. Linda is very wealthy. Her husband Kevin won a million pounds on a TV quiz show. But Kevin has gone missing, feared dead. Eddie offers his services as an amateur sleuth, and so embarks on a comically gruesome journey through the surreal underworld of Saxon the place where he grew up, the place where his mother works as a prostitute, the place where he murdered a bailiff.Saxon is the brainchild of writerdirector Greg Loftin, who developed the original screenplay over several years, quoting as influences classical Greek tragedy and the Clint Eastwood film Unforgiven. The script garnered rave reviews from Triggerstreet.com, Kevin Spaceys website for screenwriters, e.g. Enjoyed every second. Great dialogue, wellpaced, very funny Eddies the downandout antihero weve come to love in British films, beginning with A Clockwork Orange. ........

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