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Morvern Callar (film)

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Morvern Callar
Directed byLynne Ramsay
Written byLynne Ramsay
Liana Dognini
Alan Warner (novel)
Produced byRobyn Slovo
Charles Pattinson
George Faber
StarringSamantha Morton
Release date
2002
Running time
97 min
CountryUK
LanguageEnglish

Morvern Callar is a 2002 film directed by Lynne Ramsay and starring Samantha Morton in the title role. It was based on Alan Warner's 1995 novel Morvern Callar.

Plot synopsis

Morvern Callar is a young woman in a small port town in Scotland. She wakens Christmas morning to discover her boyfriend has committed suicide, leaving the manuscript of his unpublished novel behind. She instinctively erases his name, and puts hers on the novel, and ends up selling the document as her own.

Critical reception

It won the 2002 British Independent Film Award for Best Actress. The movie also received the 2002 Scottish BAFTA Award for Best Actress (Kathleen McDermott), the 2002 C.I.C.A.E. Award and the Award Of The Youth at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.