Close My Eyes (film)

Close My Eyes
US promotional poster for the film
Directed byStephen Poliakoff
Written byStephen Poliakoff
Produced byTherese Pickard
StarringAlan Rickman
Clive Owen
Saskia Reeves
CinematographyWitold Stok
Music byMichael Gibbs
Production
company
Distributed byArtificial Eye[1]
Release date
  • 6 September 1991 (6 September 1991)
Running time
100 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget£1.2 million[2]
Box office£268,248 (UK)[2]

Close My Eyes is a 1991 film written and directed by Stephen Poliakoff and starring Alan Rickman, Clive Owen and Saskia Reeves as well as Lesley Sharp and Karl Johnson. Music was by Michael Gibbs and the film was produced for Beambright and FilmFour International by Therese Pickard. It had a limited theatrical release from 6 September 1991,[3] before being shown in Channel 4's Film on Four strand on 28 October 1993.[4]

  1. ^ "Close My Eyes (1991)". BBFC. Retrieved 22 October 2021.
  2. ^ a b "Back to the Future: The Fall and Rise of the British Film Industry in the 1980s - An Information Briefing" (PDF). British Film Institute. 2005. p. 20.
  3. ^ Plays: 3, Stephen Poliakoff, Methuen Drama, 1998, Introduction, pages 198.
  4. ^ The Kaleidoscope British Independent Television Drama Research Guide, Kaleidoscope Publishing, 2010, page 1857.