Donovan Quick is a modern day reworking of Cervantes Don Quixote.
It also happens to be a critique of the Tory governments privatisation policies of public transport. In short council led bus services being replaced by private monopolies who stifle competition. They also gets millions of pounds in government subsidies.
Colin Firth is the haunted stranger Donovan Quick who enters the life of alcoholic Lucy Pannick (Kate Murphy) in Scotland. Donivan rents a room from her and is generous with the rent.
Lucy has a intellectually disabled younger brother Sandy, a senile mother who is always wandering around in her underwear, a tearaway teenage son and an abusive married boyfriend who is always sponging off her.
When Sandy cannot get public transport to his learning centre because services are cut by Windmill Transport.
Donovan and Sandy team up to start their own bus company. This provokes the ire of Windmill transport who wants to quickly put them under.
Donovan is polite, generous and slightly eccentric or maybe just mad. He is also hiding something and has flashbacks to a time when he was not so nice.
This is a small scale gritty fantasy. You have to ignore that maybe Donovan Quick might have been more easily identifiable.
Effectively Donovan is the catalyst for the Pannicks, a marginalised family in a rough working class district. They gain something as the little guys who take on the bigwigs.
An interesting and a dark tinged reworking of Don Quixote.
It also happens to be a critique of the Tory governments privatisation policies of public transport. In short council led bus services being replaced by private monopolies who stifle competition. They also gets millions of pounds in government subsidies.
Colin Firth is the haunted stranger Donovan Quick who enters the life of alcoholic Lucy Pannick (Kate Murphy) in Scotland. Donivan rents a room from her and is generous with the rent.
Lucy has a intellectually disabled younger brother Sandy, a senile mother who is always wandering around in her underwear, a tearaway teenage son and an abusive married boyfriend who is always sponging off her.
When Sandy cannot get public transport to his learning centre because services are cut by Windmill Transport.
Donovan and Sandy team up to start their own bus company. This provokes the ire of Windmill transport who wants to quickly put them under.
Donovan is polite, generous and slightly eccentric or maybe just mad. He is also hiding something and has flashbacks to a time when he was not so nice.
This is a small scale gritty fantasy. You have to ignore that maybe Donovan Quick might have been more easily identifiable.
Effectively Donovan is the catalyst for the Pannicks, a marginalised family in a rough working class district. They gain something as the little guys who take on the bigwigs.
An interesting and a dark tinged reworking of Don Quixote.