Bad Day

Bad Day (2008)

Their last 24 hours were murder

Rebecca Ryan has been working as an undercover agent for the Organised Crime Division (OCD) posing as a taxi driver, while investigating London's south-side mob. When she finds her young daughter Lynn brutally murdered she fears her cover has been blown wide open, so she turns renegade and begins a brutal campaign of vengeance against the mob she believes killed her daughter. As she trawls the seedy depths of London's underworld hunting down her daughter's killers, the lines between good and evil, right and wrong begin to blur as do her notions of justice and revenge. It falls to the world-weary OCD agent Darius Cuise and his newly-assigned, hot-tempered partner Abby Barrett to track down Rebecca and bring her in before all hell breaks loose.

Date of release
2008-02-18
TMDB
5.1 / 10 (8)
Runtime
1h 38m
Genres
Crime, Thriller
Director
Ian David Díaz

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: London

Bad Day is an independent British film starring Claire Goose, Donna Air, Sarah Harding, Anthony Ofoegbu and Robbie Gee. It is the latest feature film from director Ian David Diaz, whose past films include The Killing Zone, Dead Room and Fallen Angels.

Production notes

Although incorrectly described in The British Film Catalogue as having been shot on 35 mm movie film, Bad Day was in fact one of the first independent feature films shot entirely in the UK using the Panasonic AG-HVX200 P2 camera.

Notably, this was the first acting performance in a feature film from Sarah Harding of the popular UK girl band Girls Aloud. Owing to release schedules, her subsequent appearance in St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold was released to the public before Bad Day.

When it was decided that Sarah Harding's character in the film should have long, dark hair, a wig was used to cover her distinctive short blonde crop.

The visual FX supervisor for Bad Day had previously worked on The Da Vinci Code, commenting that the number of individual FX shots he completed on Bad Day exceeded those on this previous film. SVFX included green screen driving scenes, muzzle flash and squib/wound/blood enhancements, mic/wire removal, digital scene enhancements, and day-for-night image manipulation.

The original score was composed by Dominic Glynn, who is best known for his work on the TV series Doctor Who.

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