Bad Day (film)

Bad Day

Directed by	Ian David Diaz
Produced by	Ian David Diaz Gena Helen Ashwell
Written by	Ian David Diaz Alan Dunlop Anthony Ofoegbu
Starring	Claire Goose Donna Air Anthony Ofoegbu George Calil Sarah Harding
Distributed by	Centre Media Film Sales ISIS Films
Running time	94 minutes
Language	English

Bad Day is a gritty independent British film starring Claire Goose, Donna Air, Sarah Harding, Anthony Ofoegbu and Robbie Gee. 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
Abby Barrett – Donna Air
Darius Cruise – Anthony Ofoegbu
Harry McCann – George Calil
Marla McCann – Riana Husselmann
Trigg – Tom Bacon
David Cummings – Keith Eyles
Benjamin Radcliffe – Robbie Gee
Jade Jennings – Sarah Harding
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,^[1] 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.^[2] 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.^[3]
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.
The original score was composed by Dominic Glynn who is best known for his work on the TV series Doctor Who.

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,^[4] Cineology,^[5] Lovefilm^[6] and Filmdates.^[7]

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