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THE BITTEN TONGUE - tom bruggen feature film Manchester, Metaphor & Insurgency Films

INT. MANCHESTER PRISON - DAY
It's complicated, CHEEKY B, 27, short, white scally-builder father of 2, born nuisance & rebel, inferior stream of consciousness philosopher of crime, a bright Northern June dawn: stares out of his cell window, catches the camera line and grins broadly.

Tongue is, a groovy satire - commercially exploitable - in a mass world-wide audience.
Tongue could make millions. Tongue twists wits, satirises estates and bellyaches with its comedy crime caper and sells. Blurring slapstick with satire great comedy comes from great pain: and no one suffers more than the lead Cheeky B.
His mission to 'work on his own fucking house for a change' just out of nick, sacked, soberly convinced of an alternative to work he rallies his nightmare associates around a building redevelopment scam that turns into stand-up robbery.