JUNIPER

By Matthew J. SAVILLE

CAROUSEL MEDIA SERVICES LTD - as CONS

Drama - Completed 2021

When a self-destructive teenager is suspended from school and asked to look after his feisty alcoholic grandmother as a punishment, the crazy time they spend together turns his life around.

Festivals
& Awards

FIN Atlantic International Film Festival 2021
Cinefest 2021
EIFF Edmonton 2021
Barrie 2021
Bif&st 2021
International Panorama: Winner Best Actress: Charlotte Rampling
    • Year of production
    • 2021
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • NEW ZEALAND
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH
    • Budget
    • 3 - 5 M$
    • Duration
    • 94 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Matthew J. SAVILLE
    • Writer(s)
    • Matthew J. SAVILLE
    • Producer(s)
    • Angela LITTLEJOHN, Desray ARMSTRONG
    • Synopsis
    • Sam (17) has been on a self-destructive spiral that could lead to his death. He returns home from boarding school to find his wheelchair-bound English grandmother, Ruth [Charlotte Rampling] has moved in. Ruth is an ex-war photographer with a lust for life and a love of the bottle. Sam soon finds himself profoundly confronted by her alcoholic wit and chutzpah. Their first meeting is awkward; their second violent. Things get worse when Sam finds himself stranded alone with her and her nurse Sarah for the school holidays. Both strong-willed characters, a battle of supremacy ensues, enabling Sam to embrace life again and for Ruth to face her mortality.