“Freefall tackles head on the extraordinary financial crisis we are currently living through. Written and directed by multiple-Bafta Award-winning Dominic Savage, the film dives into the events that have caused turmoil in so many people’s lives.

“Tautly and delicately interwoven, the film follows the lives of three men with everything on the line. Gus (Aidan Gillen) is the high-flying city exec who packages and sells bundles of mortgages for extortionate profit.

“Dave (Dominic Cooper) is the mortgage broker who can make anything happen, and when Dave offers Jim (Joseph Mawle), his old school friend, a way out of the council flat he and his family have been stuck in for years, it’s an offer that is too good to refuse.”

This was the BBC’s own description of Freefall and actually – for once – it did exactly what it said on the tin. The addition of Sarah Harding from Girls Aloud was quite interesting too; I enjoy seeing a famous face outside of their usual context – like Angela Rippon that time on Morecambe and Wise – and the girl done good. Read more & comment »

Freefall tackles head on the extraordinary financial crisis we are currently living through. Written and directed by multiple-Bafta Award-winning Dominic Savage, the film dives into the events that have caused turmoil in so many people’s lives.

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In advance of her acting première in BBC Two’s credit crunch drama Freefall, Girls Aloud’s Sarah Harding has said that she would love also love to take on a comedy role.

“People like to see you as just one thing and find it hard to take if you try something different – they say ‘Why’s she doing that?’” she told The Sun.

“So I have to be clever about what I choose and take it one step at a time.”

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Bafta award-winning writer and director Dominic Savage returns to the BBC with Freefall – a powerful drama which explores the human side of the global financial crisis, on BBC Two.

Freefall tackles head on the extraordinary times we are living through, focusing on the events that caused so many lives to spiral into financial turmoil giving a unique insight into the meltdown of the past year.

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Sarah Harding is to make her first foray into the land of TV drama as she lands a role in the BBC’s newest production.

The drama titled ‘Freefall’ will be based on the current credit crunch and will be a big challenge for Sarah as a lot of emphasis will be placed on improvisation.

Sarah is quoted by heatworld.com as saying:

“Dominic Savage’s films are all about improvisation, which is pretty challenging, but that’s also a big reason why I want to do the project.”

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