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Beneath the Skin

Country: Canada | UK, Language: English, 87 mins

  • Director: Aaron Ellis; Michael MacKinnley
  • Writer: Aaron Ellis
  • Producer: Aaron Ellis; Richard Harrison

CGiii Comment

It took two directors...to [dismally] reproduce every [dismal] cliché in the book.

A sample of the writing/humour:

"I'm just gonna have a fag first."
"Excuse me?""Oh my God, it means cigarette in England!"

And, that's as good as it gets!

Messieurs Ellis and MacKinnley need to either watch some low-budget, independent, high-on-talent films (and absorb every drop of inspiration they can garner)...or, rethink their film-making careers.

In truth, this is a vanity project that back-fired...[horrendously]...for Mr Ellis. Very few people can carry off being director/writer/producer and star! Mr Ellis is not one of those people...less may - indeed - mean more!


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The(ir) Blurb...

After his family falls apart Joshua (writer/co-director/star Aaron Ellis) is forced to move to Canada to live with his estranged father. It is there he meets Jay (Justin Liles), a local tattoo artist who fled the violent actions of his parents back home in Alabama. Both young men, abandoned and lonely in their own way, find themselves falling for one another... until a pair of high school brats become intrude on the boys' growing relationship.

Cast & Characters

Aaron Ellis as Joshua;
Justin Liles as Jay;
Jamie Knox as Elijah;
Wayne Virgo as Sam;
Lauren Falconer as Rosalie;
Rachel Walters as Kaitlyn;
Mike Collins as Zac;
Jake Davies as Noah;
Abbie Mason as Charlotte;
Andy Sechi as Mr. Harris;
Allan Yates as Principal Wyatt;
Michael Aston as Keith;
Clare Hopes as Elizabeth Bates;
Hannah Brennen as Jenny;
Paul Dewdney as Jay's Father