Twelve in a Box (2007)

Director
John Mckenzie

Main cast
Ed Bennett; David Burrows-Sutcliffe; Robert Cargill; Lucy Chalkley; Gareth Clarke

Genres
Comedy, Thriller

Description
At a school reunion dinner in a remote country mansion, a dozen people are offered the chance to collect a million pounds each if they can stay on the estate, cut off from the outside world, for 96 hours.


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