Watching the Detectives

Neil, owner of the Gumshoe video store, hasspent half his life with fictional characters,not appreciating the adventures of real life.He lounges through the days with his fellowemployees, maintaining their real life film-geekpersonas. Until one day, first time customerViolet enters the store, waltzing in, ignoring hisattempts to help her. Violet immediately attractsNeil’s attention with her odd sense of humourand femme-fatale manners. He is immediatelyseduced by her way of living life to the fullest.Watching adventures is not good enough forViolet–she has to make them herself. Butas her fear of boredom leads to dangerouspractical jokes, sensible Neil’s warning lightsturn red. A fake-kidnap story later, he wondersif he might be better off going back to his life infront of the television.With sharp scripting and directing, Paul Soterconstantly surprises the audience, making thisa great modern comedy noir.

Date Night:
Once, Watching the Detectives, Viva
Saturday 17 November
GRAND 22:00