Short film
Spike Up
2007 · 29 min
A sobering, morally fraught character study that grinds through a policeman's unraveling with quiet intensity.
- Directed by
- Anthony Maras
- Genres
- Crime, Drama
- Starring
- Roy Billing, Jake Chamberlin, Mark Constable
- Overview
- Steve Barker is a veteran police officer struggling to find any self-respect or connection with his young family. An encounter with a drug-addled Aboriginal, his wife's infidelities and a friend's dark secret forces Steve into a crisis of conscience and warps his previously straight-edged moral code completely out of shape. In the tradition of Serpico and Blue Murder, SPIKE UP offers a sobering meditation on police ethics and responsibility; and examines the power of institutional evil to permeate the individual.
- How it feels
- Bleak, tense, melancholic and earnest. Measured and needs your attention.
- About
- Corruption, guilt, morality, addiction
- Content
- Strong language. Mild violence, gore and sexual content.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Anthony Maras
- Genres
- Crime, Drama
- Starring
- Roy Billing, Jake Chamberlin, Mark Constable
