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Locke

Steven Knight  •   UK/USA  • ​  2013
85 mins  •  HD  •   R13 offensive language
In English

Tom Hardy mesmerises as a man dealing with crisis on all fronts, making and taking frantic phone calls as he steers his BMW through the night. Steven Knight’s breathless feat of real-time drama is set entirely inside the car.

"It’s a powerhouse of claustrophobic suspense and fierce emotion, mostly because Tom Hardy is a blazing wonder."
- Rolling Stone
With: Tom Hardy (Ivan Locke), Olivia Colman (Bethan - voice), Ruth Wilson (Katrina - voice), Andrew Scott (Donal - voice), Ben Daniels (Gareth - voice), Tom Holland (Eddie - voice), Bill Milner (Sean - voice), Danny Webb (Cassidy - voice), Alice Lowe (Sister Margaret - voice), Silas Carson (Doctor Gullu - voice), Lee Ross (PC Davids - voice), Kirsty Dillon (Gareth's Wife -voice)
Director/Screenplay: Steven Knight
Producers: Paul Webster, Guy Heeley
Production co: Hutson Productions, Shoebox Films
Photography: Haris Zambarloukos
Editor: Justine Wright
Costume Designer: Nigel Egerton

Music: Dickon Hinchliffe

REVIEW
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Writer-director Steven Knight’s Locke is a breathless tour de force of script and performance. Actor Tom Hardy steers his BMW through the night and makes and takes calls on his hands-free phone for the entirety of the film. He has us on tenterhooks.

“You’ve never seen Tom Hardy summon the bottled-up desperation and emotional range he displays in Steven Knight’s brilliant one-man show, Locke.  Hardy plays Ivan Locke, a successful construction supervisor who, at the outset of the film, gets behind the wheel of his BMW and starts driving to London at night. Through a series of phone calls, his dire circumstances slowly come into focus. The crisis that he’s racing toward has put his job, his family, and maybe even his sanity at risk.  He’s a responsible man – a man used to being in control – and he’s frantically trying to extinguish a series of blazes without losing his cool.  If it sounds like I’m being cagey about what happens next, that’s because it’s best to know as little as possible going in.  The snowballing sense of tension and claustrophobia is too precious – and precise – to spoil.”

— Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly


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