The Parole Officer

United Kingdom

2001

93 Min

Color

1.78:1

English

Currently 2.4/5 Stars.
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PROD Duncan Kenworthy, Andrew Macdonald, Callum McDougall

SCR Steve Coogan, Henry Normal

CAST Steve Coogan, Om Puri, Steven Waddington, Ben Miller, Emma Williams, Lena Headey, Omar Sharif

Failed parole officer Steve Garden (Coogan) is framed for a murder committed by one of Manchester’s leading police constables. The only evidence proving his innocence is a CCTV video tape locked inside a bank vault. With the help of four inept ex-criminals and token love interest Emma (Lena Headey), Garden must break into the bank and steal the CCTV footage in order to clear his name. —IMDb

Director

John Duigan

John Duigan, (born 19 June 1949 in Hampshire, England, UK) is an Australian film director. Duigan emigrated to Australia in 1961, having been born to an Australian father. He is related to many Australian performers, being the brother of Virginia Duigan (wife of director Bruce Beresford) and uncle of Trilby Beresford.

Duigan has directed 23 films, including Romero, Lawn Dogs, The Parole Officer, Sirens, and Head in the Clouds. He intended his magnum opus to be The Danny Embling Trilogy, three films centered around the character Danny Embling, an artistic youth growing up in 1960s Australia whose life is influenced by the socially changing world around him and a series of doomed love affairs. The first two films in the series were the critically acclaimed The Year My Voice Broke, and Flirting, both of which won the Australian Film Institute awards for best picture the years they were released.

Thandie Newton claims that Duigan forced her into a relationship with him that… read more