500 Miles North

500 Miles North

Drama | Jan. 1, 2014

To claim a huge inheritance, two estranged brothers must travel to the wilds of Scotland in an old camper van to spread their father’s ashes. James and John haven’t spoken in ten years; John is now a thrusting executive with a wandering eye, James, a lonely, socially maladjusted, alcoholic. It’s only the sudden death of the father who rejected them as children, that draws them back together. Their father’s letters and the people they meet, start to heal old wounds, helping them come to terms with the pains of both past and present, but there is a secret waiting five hundred miles north in the highlands that could shatter them forever.

500 Miles North

Drama | Jan. 1, 2014

500 Miles North
To claim a huge inheritance, two estranged brothers must travel to the wilds of Scotland in an old camper van to spread their father’s ashes. James and John haven’t spoken in ten years; John is now a thrusting executive with a wandering eye, James, a lonely, socially maladjusted, alcoholic. It’s only the sudden death of the father who rejected them as children, that draws them back together. Their father’s letters and the people they meet, start to heal old wounds, helping them come to terms with the pains of both past and present, but there is a secret waiting five hundred miles north in the highlands that could shatter them forever.
Producers M & R Films, Rebel Uncut
Original title 500 Miles North
Directors Luke Massey
Writers Jonathan Fletcher, Luke Massey, Benjamin Read

Cast

Joseph Morgan

as James Hogg

Wendy Glenn

as Sassy

Vanessa Branch

as Claire

Sue Johnston

as Stein

Scott Ainslie

as Policeman

John Milroy

as Ghillie

Leon Davis

as Traveller