Bad Day is a gritty independent British film starring Claire Goose

Claire Goose

Claire Goose is a British actress. She is best known for her role as nurse Tina Seabrook in the BBC television drama Casualty and later as DS Mel Silver in Waking the Dead.-Life and career:...

, Donna Air

Donna Air

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, Sarah Harding

Sarah Harding

Sarah Nicole Harding is an English singer-songwriter, actress and model best known for being a member of the pop group Girls Aloud, formed through ITV's reality television programme Popstars: The Rivals...

, Anthony Ofoegbu and Robbie Gee

Robbie Gee

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. It is the latest feature film from director Ian David Diaz, whose past films include The Killing Zone, Dead Room and Fallen Angels.

Synopsis

Rebecca Ryan works as an undercover agent for the Organised Crime Division (OCD), posing as a taxi driver while investigating London's south-side mob. When she finds her young daughter Lynn brutally murdered she fears her cover has been blown wide open, so she turns renegade and begins a brutal campaign of vengeance against the mob she believes killed her daughter.
As she trawls the seedy depths of London's underworld hunting down her daughter's killers, the lines between good and evil, right and wrong begin to blur as do her notions of justice and revenge. It falls to the world-weary OCD agent Darius Cruise and his newly-assigned, hot-tempered partner Abby Barrett to track down Rebecca and bring her in before all hell breaks loose.

Cast

• Rebecca Ryan/Margaret – Claire Goose
  Claire Goose
  Claire Goose is a British actress. She is best known for her role as nurse Tina Seabrook in the BBC television drama Casualty and later as DS Mel Silver in Waking the Dead.-Life and career:...
  
  
• Abby Barrett – Donna Air
  Donna Air
  Donna Air is an English television presenter, singer and actress.-Early life:As a former student of Gosforth High School, Donna attended the Drama School at First Act in Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne, where she was a pupil alongside Jill Halfpenny, Ant & Dec and Dale Meeks.-Television:She became...
  
  
• Darius Cruise – Anthony Ofoegbu
• Harry McCann – George Calil
• Marla McCann – Riana Husselmann
• Trigg – Tom Bacon
• David Cummings – Keith Eyles
• Benjamin Radcliffe – Robbie Gee
  Robbie Gee
  Robbie Gee is a British actor, best known for his Desmond's character "Lee Stanley", and for appearing in Guy Ritchie's crime caper Snatch. He also appeared in the movie Mean Machine playing "Trojan".-Hosting:...
  
  
• Jade Jennings – Sarah Harding
  Sarah Harding
  Sarah Nicole Harding is an English singer-songwriter, actress and model best known for being a member of the pop group Girls Aloud, formed through ITV's reality television programme Popstars: The Rivals...
  
  
• Aaron White – Marlon Sage Kerr
• Triftan Jarret – Dominic Debias
• Mr. Ward – Ben Shockley
• Mrs. Ward – Sadie Tonk
• Lynn Ryan – Olivia Glynn-Jones

Production notes

• Although incorrectly described in the British Films Catalogue as having been shot on 35mm film, Bad Day was in fact one of the first independent feature films shot entirely in the UK using the Panasonic AG-HVX200 P2 camera.
• Notably this was the first acting performance in a feature film from Sarah Harding of the popular UK girl band Girls Aloud. Owing to release schedules her subsequent appearance in St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold was released to the public before Bad Day.
• When it was decided that Sarah Harding's character in the film should have long, dark hair a wig was used to cover her distinctive short blonde crop.
• The visual FX supervisor for Bad Day had previously worked on The DaVinci Code, commenting that the number of individual FX shots he completed on Bad Day exceeded those on this previous film. SVFX included greenscreen driving scenes, muzzle flash and squib/wound/blood enhancements, mic/wire removal, digital scene enhancements and day-for-night image manipulation.

Reception

Bad Day was released as a direct-to-video release on DVD and Blu-ray in the UK. Despite its low-budget indie pedigree it has received consistently favourable reviews on sites such as DooYoo, Cineology, Lovefilm and Filmdates.

External links

• http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bad-Day-The-Movie/113108808722572?ref=ts