FREE JIMMY

Year: 2006
UK: Breakthru Films
Cast (voices of): Woody Harrelson, Simon Pegg, Phil Daniels, Jay Simpson, Kyle MacLachlan, Samantha Morton, Emilia Fox, Kris Marshall, Lisa Maxwell, James Cosmo, Douglas Henshall, David Tennant, Russell Barr, Steve Pemberton, Reece Sheersmith, Mark Gatiss, William Hope, Megan Dodds
Director: Christopher Nielsen
Countries: Norway / UK
UK: 85 mins
UK Certificate: 15 contains strong language, sex, violence and moderate drug use
UK Release Date: 17 October 2008 (Limited Release)


Synopsis

Four stoners, three gangsters, five vegans, and a million reasons to free one junkie elephant....

FREE JIMMY follows the story of four low life anti-heroes Roy Arnie (Woody Harrelson), Odd (Simon Pegg), Gaz (Phil Daniels) and Flea (Jay Simpson), who are uprooted from their mean city streets to work with Ringmaster Stromowski (Jim Broadbent) in a touring Russion circus in terminal decline.

The star attraction is Jimmy, an elephant kept 'happy' on a cocktail of drugs. But Roy Arnie has a dream that one day he will run his own circus and he tells the boys that the key to his dream is Jimmy.

On the opening night a bungled attempt to give Jimmy his 'fix' causes widespread panic. Jimmy escapes and so begins a madcap cross-country road trip to find Jimmy before he goes cold turkey.