Amazon Prime welcomes A Safe Place, a thoroughly original British heist/comedy that explores mental health in a new light.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/video/detail/B08PDF3N6V/
John Henry Westhead, who owns Flipindistical Pictures, created the feature film, A Safe Place. The film is a heartfelt look at the world of mental health that has never been explored before on film, until now. The director got the idea of creating the film and therefore spent twenty years researching the subject of mental health, an event that has brought authenticity to the characters’ stories the film.
The film shows the stories of adults with mental health conditions, such as autism and schizophrenia that live at the 17 Albion Street care home.
There are some wonderful performances by talented actors; Kevin, pathological demand avoidance syndrome, is played loveably by Dean Ackerman. Earl, schizophrenic, is played with a steal purpose by Mark Ramsay. Teddy, autistic, is played with a subtle intensity by Nick Thomas. Frank Lyle, an undiagnosed psychopath, who convinces Earl to steal the safe of 17 Albion Street in order to pay off his debts and set this story in motion. Eirini Mo, wonderfully plays Alina, the therapist, who is the person that the patients trust and respect. She can smartly deal with all of the patients, stops them arguing, and puts things in order. There is also Shirley Jaffe who played Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange along with a host of other fine performances.
Westhead describes the heist comedy as ‘Shameless meets One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.’ Reviews have said that the film is “a delightful indie film”, “well worth a watch”, “a hidden gem”, “a British original”, “a good laugh”, “a stylish black comedy-drama”, “a phenomenal film about the lives of people in a similar vein to the work of Cassavetes. It delivers”, ” very enjoyable comedy on mental health and more”.
A Safe Place is the first film of a trilogy directed by John Henry Westhead, all to be released by Flipindistical Pictures. Cornered, a faux music biopic, is in post production, and arrives on Amazon Prime in early 2021. Steve the Stammer’s Missing Painting, a treatise on art and the nature of creation, is in pre production and arrives in late 2021/early 2022.
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A Safe place
A Safe Place
A Safe Place on Amazon Prime Video
