BOXING DAY
Nick (leading role)
"Boxing Day" (2014) directed and written by Bernard Rose, a contemporary art-house feature adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's classic novella "Master and Man" stars Danny Huston as Basil, and Matthew Jacobs as Nick, and was produced by Independent Films (UK) and The British Film Institute. It played to critical acclaim theatrically in the UK, in competition at the Venice Film Festival and the Los Angeles Film Festival. It is available on DVD and VOD only in the UK at the moment. Because of it's limited availability here's a few substantial clips ...
NickWe meet Nick, a British ex-pat living in Denver who is a struggling alcoholic gets a job the day after Christmas.
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Global WarmingNick drives Basil (an LA realtor) to a series of foreclosed properties up in the Rockies, they get to know each other.
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Your Wife CalledThe duo are lost, they stop at a mountain bar compete for the barmaid's attention but passive aggression wins the day.
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The Observer
"Huston and Jacobs work superbly together"
The Guardian
4 stars - "another arresting adaptation from Rose fascinatingly acted film"
The Telegraph
4 stars - "Huston and Jacobs have a marvellously spluttery chemistry...terrific"
The Evening Standard
4 stars - "it sustains an unusual atmosphere and an emotional charge of which Tolstoy might have approved --
and both performances are memorably etched into it."
The Independent
3 stars -"the duelling performances – Huston's saturnine patrician, Jacobs's plaintive everyman – never falter"
The Financial Times
3 stars -"there’s a rueful wit in this character mismatch"
Movieshark
"A tour de force performance piece, and one of my top 3 “Must See” Festival Films at Los Angeles Film Festival 2013, is BOXING DAY ... A wonderful film that has quickly become one of my favorite Tolstoy adaptations, BOXING DAY is an intimate portrait of the human condition and the socio-economic status of the country ... Sharply observed with a dialogue rich narrative, BOXING DAY is extremely well crafted, allowing the actors to soar ... Matthew Jacobs is a pure delight as the grounded, simple and salt of the earth Nick, resonating with the heart. Visually beauteous, the starkness and pristine visual of the clean, pure snow of winter in the Rocky Mountains stuns as a blank canvas that creates a perfect backdrop to the performances."
"Huston and Jacobs work superbly together"
The Guardian
4 stars - "another arresting adaptation from Rose fascinatingly acted film"
The Telegraph
4 stars - "Huston and Jacobs have a marvellously spluttery chemistry...terrific"
The Evening Standard
4 stars - "it sustains an unusual atmosphere and an emotional charge of which Tolstoy might have approved --
and both performances are memorably etched into it."
The Independent
3 stars -"the duelling performances – Huston's saturnine patrician, Jacobs's plaintive everyman – never falter"
The Financial Times
3 stars -"there’s a rueful wit in this character mismatch"
Movieshark
"A tour de force performance piece, and one of my top 3 “Must See” Festival Films at Los Angeles Film Festival 2013, is BOXING DAY ... A wonderful film that has quickly become one of my favorite Tolstoy adaptations, BOXING DAY is an intimate portrait of the human condition and the socio-economic status of the country ... Sharply observed with a dialogue rich narrative, BOXING DAY is extremely well crafted, allowing the actors to soar ... Matthew Jacobs is a pure delight as the grounded, simple and salt of the earth Nick, resonating with the heart. Visually beauteous, the starkness and pristine visual of the clean, pure snow of winter in the Rocky Mountains stuns as a blank canvas that creates a perfect backdrop to the performances."