In Little Stempington, the women don’t kill time – they kill each other, with anything from Glock 9mm machine pistols to potato peelers if necessary.
In fact, this sleepy English town is more South Central LA than Home Counties.
Beneath the charity fundraising and mid-morning aerobic classes lies a secret, super-sexed, super-violent world. Industrial strength Viagra is grated into husbands’ suppers, high doses of illegal HRT are smuggled in from Marseilles and every high street shop is at the mercy of a protection racket so fierce no one is prepared to stand in its way.
Into this rural battlefield walk innocent Joyce Hazeldine and her policeman husband Jeremy, itching to find a stress-free life away from the high crime rate of the big city. The opportunity to move into a peaceful, suburban environment couldn’t have come at a better time. Or so they think.
As wife of the new local superintendent, Joyce soon becomes an unwilling pawn in the epic power struggle between two rival gangs, and has to learn to swim and shoot or sink and die. Welcome to Little Stempington. Welcome to Suburban Shootout.
MONTE CARLO TELEVISION FESTIVAL 2007 - Feelgood Fiction oustanding international producer
"...bold, funny and fabulously subversive of the whole “moving to the country” cliché. Fast-moving, sharp-witted, wild, refreshing and entirely unexpected, this script was blessed by a perfect cast. A skilled and restrained cast knew exactly how to play a script that combined with impressive precision both outrageous Mafia attitudes and comic domestic detail. Required cult viewing."
The Daily Telegraph
"….it featured some cracking dialogue and one or two very fine comic performances."
The Observer
"...hilarious dark comedy ."
The Hollywood Reporter
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In Little Stempington, the women don’t kill time – they kill each other, with anything from Glock 9mm machine pistols to potato peelers if necessary. In fact, this sleepy English town is more South Central LA than Home Counties.
Beneath the charity fundraising and mid-morning aerobic classes lies a secret, super-sexed, super-violent world. Industrial strength Viagra is grated into husbands’ suppers, high doses of illegal HRT are smuggled in from Marseilles and every high street shop is at the mercy of a protection racket so fierce no one is prepared to stand in its way.
Into this rural battlefield walk innocent Joyce Hazeldine and her policeman husband Jeremy, itching to find a stress-free life away from the high crime rate of the big city. The opportunity to move into a peaceful, suburban environment couldn’t have come at a better time. Or so they think.
As wife of the new local superintendent, Joyce soon becomes an unwilling pawn in the epic power struggle between two rival gangs, and has to learn to swim and shoot or sink and die. Welcome to Little Stempington. Welcome to Suburban Shootout.
MONTE CARLO TELEVISION FESTIVAL 2007 - Feelgood Fiction oustanding international producer
"...bold, funny and fabulously subversive of the whole “moving to the country” cliché. Fast-moving, sharp-witted, wild, refreshing and entirely unexpected, this script was blessed by a perfect cast. A skilled and restrained cast knew exactly how to play a script that combined with impressive precision both outrageous Mafia attitudes and comic domestic detail. Required cult viewing."
The Daily Telegraph
"….it featured some cracking dialogue and one or two very fine comic performances."
The Observer
"...hilarious dark comedy ."
The Hollywood Reporter
