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PLOT: Happy now is an off-beat thriller set in a remote Welsh village. Teenagers Glen (Paddy Considine) and Joe (Richard Coyle) let Tin Man (Om Puri), the local tramp, take the rap after they accidentally kill Joe's girlfriend Jenny.
Fourteen years later, Tin Man is released from prison and a girl, Nicky (Emmy Rossum), turns up. Nicky is a dead ringer for Jenny, and when Joe sees her, the guilt that has haunted him for so long turns into full-blown paranoia. Glen has to do everything he can to keep him quiet. But the enigmatic Sergeant Bracchi (Ioan Gruffudd) is sure that the real story was never told all those years ago, and sets out to uncover it.

INFO: Directed by Philippa Collie-Cousins (whose short film, The Deadness of Dad, won a BAFTA Award for Best Short Film in 1999), and written by Belinda Bauer, it is produced by Ruby Films» Neris Thomas and Alison Owen. The executive producers are David M. Thompson, Anant Singh and Paul Trijbits.

PREMIERED: In the British Film Section at the 55th Edinburgh International Film Festival (12-26 August, 2001)

MORE SCREENINGS: London Film Festival on 21st and 22nd November 2001 and Welsh International Film Festival on 22nd November 2001

PRESS STILL: (Ioan Gruffudd)