Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry

Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry (2000)

For Every Credit There Must Be A Debt

A man uses the principles of double-entry bookkeeping to settle his accounts with society.

Date of release
2000-12-07
TMDB
5.3 / 10 (14)
Runtime
1h 29m
Genres
Thriller
Director
Paul Tickell

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry

Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry is a 2000 film directed by Paul Tickell from a screenplay by Simon Bent, based on the 1973 novel of the same name by B. S. Johnson.

Production

Filming took place in late 1999; in an interview with Moran by Jan Moir in The Daily Telegraph on the 23rd of December he mentioned he was in the middle of making the film and that he was foregoing pudding because he had 'five pages of nude scenes next week.' This means that the film was made at the exact time during which it is set, as Christie's gravestone at the end of the film shows that he died on 13 December 1999.

Despite being set in London and featuring a largely British cast, director Paul Tickell said in an interview that the film had no actual funding from Britain and bemoaned the state of the UK film industry: 'There's not a penny of the British Film industry in Malry.

A number of London locations and landmarks can be seen in the film, including Hammersmith Bridge (which is also mentioned in the novel and is close to where author BS Johnson grew up), Westminster Bridge and the London Eye. However, in the DVD commentary, Tickell and Moran discuss how most of the film was shot in Luxembourg, including the scene at a hydro-electric plant where Christie poisons London's water supply, and how precautions often had t…

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