The Toll
Genre: Dark Comedy Thriller
Written by Matt Redd
Directed by Ryan Andrew Hooper
Produced by Mark Hopkins
Developed through the Ffilm Cymru Wales and BFI Cinematic Scheme
Status: Premiered at the Glasgow Film Festival 2021. Released in the UK in August 2021.
Starring Michael Smiley, Iwan Rheon, Steve Oram, Paul Kaye and Annes Elwy
Synopsis
The Toll is a ‘West Walian Western’ set entirely in Pembrokeshire – a place English people come to die.
A single toll booth on a road in the middle of nowhere. A lone wolf HOWLS in the distance. Actually, it’s probably a stray dog, but you get the picture.
TOLL BOOTH works solo shifts in the quietest toll booth in Wales, hiding from a criminal past where nobody would ever look. When he finally gets rumbled, word of his whereabouts gets out and his enemies head west for revenge. Meanwhile, local traffic cop CATRIN’s investigation into a simple robbery finds her heading for the booth at exactly the wrong time.
Read the Screen Article here.