Eight (1998 film)

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Eight
Opening titles
Directed by	Stephen Daldry
Written by	Tim Clague
Produced by	Jonathan Finn
Starring	Jack Langan-Evans Mark E'von Gina McKee
Cinematography	John Pardue
Release date	1998 (1998)
Running time	13 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Budget	£100,000

Eight (stylized as Ei8ht) is a 1998 British short film directed by Stephen Daldry, written by Tim Clague and produced by Working Title Films.

Plot

Eight tells the story of the life of an eight-year-old football fan who has to come to terms with living in a strange new town and the loss of his father.

Eight opens with a boy wearing what appears to be a homemade

. Jonathan's mum is fed up with her son's football fanaticism, and wants him to get a new hobby.

Terry's father hits him when he gets angry. Terry wishes that he was Jonathan and had no father at all. Jonathan wonders what his dad's work was. He hopes that he was a train driver, a firefighter or maybe a pilot? Terry says he probably was a "stinky caretaker at a stinky school", Jonathan calls him a liar and they depart in anger. At home, alone with a football board game, Jonathan admits that he never knew his father, he died before he was born, at a football match he was watching, possibly referring to the

".

Awards

• Eight was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Short Film in 1999.

History

Eight was made through the Jerwood Foundation after Tim Clague's script (originally called "N'That") was selected to win the Jerwood Film Prize. The film was shot on location in the Bournemouth and Poole area.

External links

• Eight at
  IMDb