Solid Geometry (film)

Solid Geometry
Written byDenis Lawson
Story byIan McEwan
Directed byDenis Lawson
StarringEwan McGregor
Ruth Millar
Peter Capaldi
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
Production
Running time24 minutes
Original release
NetworkChannel 4
Release2002 (2002)
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Solid Geometry is a 2002 short TV film directed by Denis Lawson and starring his nephew Ewan McGregor and Ruth Millar. It is based on a short story by Ian McEwan published in collection First Love, Last Rites. It was made for the Scottish Television/Grampian Television New Found Land series, first shown by them on 3 October 2002. Co-financed by Channel 4, it was subsequently shown by them on 28 November 2002.[1] Production on an earlier BBC adaptation was halted at a late stage in 1979.[2][3]

  1. ^ Simon Coward, Richard Down & Christopher Perry The Kaleidoscope British Independent Television Drama Research Guide 1955–2010, Kaleidoscope Publishing, 2nd edition, 2010, page 2535, ISBN 978-1-900203-33-3
  2. ^ "McEwan: Enduring talent". BBC News. 18 September 2001.
  3. ^ "The pickle we're in". The Guardian. 26 April 1999.