7 /10 1 Votes
88% Rotten Tomatoes | 5.2/10 IMDb Music by Carl Davis Initial release 2008 Production company Mansion Pictures | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Directed by David ConollyHannah Davis Written by David ConollyHannah Davis Starring Marin IrelandPaul SparksAasif MandviKelli GiddishRichard KindNeko ParhamScott CohenReiko AylesworthDavid MelvilleGloria Reuben Release date 25 June 2008 (2008-06-25) (Avignon Film Festival) Cast Similar Dark comedies, Dramas | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Understudy is a 2008 black comedy from British duo David Conolly and Hannah Davis and is their second feature-length film through their Mansion Pictures flagship, which is currently traveling the Film Festival circuit around the world.
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The understudy
Plot
Rebecca is an unemployed actress who is living with an equally unsuccessful screenwriter, Sarfras. Rebecca makes a living by caring for a blind and diabetic woman while going from one disastrous relationship to the next.
Rebecca is invited to understudy the famous movie star Simone Harwin (from the Drive By trilogy), in the play Electra. Although Rebecca's unfulfillment is compounded: despite outshining the Action Star with her own talent, Rebecca is treated as second class, either bullied or ignored by the cast and crew including the director Ian, the stage manager Alison. Her salvation lies within the relationship with the seemingly perfect Firefighter Bobby.
Accidents start to disrupt the leading ladies of Electra and Rebecca's star begins to rise, suspicion surrounds her. Can Rebecca hold on to the leading role and her freedom?