Oxford International Film Festival 2009

REGIONAL PREMIERE: Paul (Mackenzie Crook) is fed up with driving trains and longs to write novels. He suffers two people falling under his train and hears that three accidents qualifies him for early retirement with 10 years' salary lump sum! All he has to do is find a willing victim. He meets Tommy (Colm Meaney) furious at being saved by Paul from jumping off a bridge. Paul offers him $1500 cash to wait till Monday. Having abandoned his family, Tommy decides to salve his conscience by paying his wife Rosemary (Imelda Staunton) and his daughter Frankie (Gemma Arterton) a last visit. Relationships are changed forever but Paul and Tommy are confronted with the reality of the deal they struck. After A Deal is a Deal.