Top cast:Jessie Buckley,Olivia Colman,Timothy Spall
Director:Gene Stupnitsky
Genre:Thriller
Region:Iraq
Year:2006
Storyline:With a script co-written by the director and Mardik Martin, the original film was a low-budget (at $300,000), semi-autobiographical, realistic tale about four struggling, small-time hoods and hustlers in New York""s grim Little Italy in Manhattan""s Lower East Side who were trying to establish themselves.In the parking area, a Pacific Courier truck opened up with ten other heavily-armed, hi-tech errorists, led by the classic bad-guy villain Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman), a well-read ex-member of the radical West GermanVolksfreimovement.The downbeat screenplay was based on Geoffrey Homes"" (a pseudonym - his real name was Daniel Mainwaring) 1946 novelBuild My Gallows High, a book that consciously imitated Dashiell Hammett""sThe Maltese Falcon (1941).He guessed that the killer covered the eyes of his victims with shattered mirror parts.His conclusion was that the killer "dreams about being wanted and desired, so he changes people into beings who want and desire him...Did they tell you that that girl lost her mind and her mother killed herself in our living room?"His father denied any problems: "There""s absolutely nothing, I mean, nothing wrong with this house.