Dan Clark’s new award-winning crime comedy, A Kind Of Kidnapping, will touch down next month in the UK via Bulldog Distribution. Starring Patrick Baladi (The Office, Line of Duty), Kelly Wenham (Double Date, Tales from the Lodge), Jack Parry-Jones (The Crown) and Olivia Poulet (The Thick of It), select cinemas will host screenings with cast and crew attendance starting July 13, followed by its digital release on July 24.
Winner of multiple awards at the recent Manchester International Film Festival, including Best Actress and Best Screenplay, the film has also started to receive critical acclaim with British Comedy Guide calling it “deliciously outrageous and laugh-out-loud-dark.”
A KIND OF KIDNAPPING is the story of 30-something couple Maggie and Brian who, both struggling to get by, decide to kidnap London politician, Richard Hardy. Sadly no one wants to pay the ransom but just before they let Hardy go he wonders if he might be able to spin the situation to his advantage if they continue to keep him hostage. Why? Well, he’s never had better PR than this and he believes the sympathy vote will help with his campaign to one day become Prime Minister. What follows is a series of lies, double crossing and even murder, in this taught, darkly comic thriller.
Tickets are available for the film’s premiere in London’s Regent Street Cinema on July 13, as well as July 19 in Newcastle at Tyneside. More screenings will be made available on July 16 in Cardiff at Chapter, and in Glasgow at GFT on July 20.
