SKELETONS

Year: 2010
UK: Soda Pictures
Cast: Ed Gaughan, Andrew Buckley, Will Adamsdale, Jason Isaacs, Paprika Steen, Tuppence Middleton, Josef Whitfield, Paul Dallison
Director: Nick Whitfield
Country: UK
UK: 93 mins
UK Certificate: NC
UK Release Date: 2 July 2010 (Limited Release)


Synopsis

The job is simple, as long as they stick to the rules, tell the client everything, leave and never come back.

Salesmen Davis (Ed Gaugham) and Bennett (Andrew Buckley) are in the business of cleaning out skeletons from clients' closets and travel all over the UK, wherever their job takes them. The enter and leave other people's lives, performing 'the Procedure' whereby hidden secrets and lies are exposed, literally fetching skeletons out of closets.

Bennett, who rigidly adheres to the rules, discovers Davis has been 'glow-chasing'. This is the term for using the Procedure to consistently re-live a past memory. It is illegal under their employer’s (Veridical) rules and dangerous for the individual. Glow-chasers can 'go Bulgarian' by experiencing a breakdown and then finding they’re only able to speak and understand Bulgarian.

Bennett threatens to tell their boss, The Colonel (Jason Isaacs), but decides to keep quiet, as he assigns them to a bigger job; which could lead to more important jobs for Veridical. After travelling to an isolated family home they can’t seem to complete the job and discover that you can't always get away from your own skeletons…