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Coming Down The Mountain - a new one-off drama for
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ One
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Coming Down The Mountain, for Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ One, is the first TV drama written by the
award-winning novelist Mark Haddon (The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The
Night-Time), and bears his distinctive and powerful simplicity of style.
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This
original and poignant 90-minute film looks at the unusual relationship
between two teenage brothers.
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The film sees through the eyes of a typical teenage boy, with a very colourful
interior life...
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"We're just an accident. A load of mixed-up chemicals. Change
the recipe and we'd be really big potatoes with eye-tentacles... Of course,
sometimes they do change the recipe and you get a brother who really is a big
potato with eye-tentacles. And then you might as well talk to the dog..."
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Teenager David (Nicholas Hoult - Skins, About A Boy) falls in love for the
first time and life couldn't be better.
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The only fly in the ointment is his
17-year-old brother, Ben (Tommy Jessop), who has Down's Syndrome.
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The family's world revolves around Ben's needs while David's are unwittingly
neglected by their parents (Neil Dudgeon - Sorted, The Street - and Julia Ford -
All About George, In A Land Of Plenty).
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They decide to move the family from
London to "the back of beyond" for the sake of Ben's education.
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David loses
love, friends and his school. His antipathy to Ben grows and grows to the point
where he decides to push him off a mountain and get rid of him once and for
all...
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The drama takes the two boys on a journey to the dangerous and strange
wilderness of Snowdonia.
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Mark Haddon says: "I began writing Coming Down The Mountain with the idea of
creating a meaty role for a young actor with Down's Syndrome.
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"It ended up as a
film about the stuff of every teenager's life - love, sex, friends, school,
depression, anxiety, parents, parties, siblings, mountains, murder, ice-cream,
Darth Vader, nipple-rings."
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Coming Down The Mountain comes in a year where Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Drama is proud to serve
audiences a rich drama menu, ranging from Doctor Who to the star-studded
Poliakoff films, from Five Days to Life On Mars.
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Sarah Brandist, Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Commissioning Editor, Independent Drama, says: "Coming Down The Mountain is an extraordinarily touching film.
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"Mark's writing has
brilliantly captured what it's like in a family with two teenage boys who have
very different perspectives on life growing up.
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"We follow their journey
together literally through their ups and downs, which is incredibly funny,
moving and real."
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Coming Down The Mountain is directed by Julie Anne Robinson Blackpool, Grey's
Anatomy) and is made by Tiger Aspect Productions Ltd (Robin Hood, Omagh,
Murphy's Law).
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It is produced by Roanna Benn (After Sun), and executive
produced for Tiger Aspect by Greg Brenman (Recovery, Billy Elliott) and for the
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ by Sarah Brandist.
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Filming is on location in London and Snowdonia.
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Coming Down The Mountain looks at a family unit where one child is different - but which child? And the challenges it causes - but to which child? Μύ
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