The Butterfly Tattoo

Director Phil Hawkins teams with screenwriter Stephen Potts to adapt Golden Compass author Philip Pullman's novel detailing an adolescent romance gone horribly awry. When seventeen year old Chris (Duncan Stuart) and lovely lass Jenny (Jessica Blake) first met at an Oxford college ball, the ruffled later was still in the run from her ex-boyfriend Piers (Dan Morgan) - a tyrannical aristocrat. But Chris' past hasn't exactly been smooth sailing either, and as the young couple enters tenuously into an innocent courtship, a series of flashbacks reveal why their romance may be headed for tragedy [D-Man2010] Chris and Jenny are teenage lovers from the gritty side of modern Oxford, England in this adaptation of the acclaimed novel by Philip Pullman (author of The Golden Compass). Chris, a naive lad, suspended between school and college, and Jenny, a free spirit fleeing a traumatized childhood. They are caught in the crossfire, as Carson, a gangster gunman with a grudge, comes looking for Chris's boss, to avenge events from long ago. Heady romance gives way to growing suspense as Carson closes in until, in a final eruption of violence, the star-crossed lovers are sundered forever. [D-Man2010]