The Near Room (1995)

Director
David Hayman

Main cast
Adrian Dunbar; David O'Hara; David Hayman; Julie Graham; Robert Pugh

Genres
Drama, Thriller

Description
Charlie Colquhoun is a journalist whose career is floundering. As a teenager, he fathered a daughter, Tommy, who was committed to foster care as an infant. Seventeen years later, Charlie, Tommy and Charlie's old schoolmate Harris Hill, now a squeaky-clean solicitor, are reunited by a scandal that includes child pornography, blackmail and murder.


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