Full Circle

2007, 102 minutes

What Goes Around Comes Around...

1978. The Wimbledon Tennis Championships. An unknown American qualifier has the world at his feet as he serves at match point to beat the defending champion for a place in the semi-finals. His first serve is just out and as he throws the ball into the air for his second serve, the Centre court crowd holds its breath. <P> Double fault. <P> The champion goes on to win the match and the tournament. And what of the loser....? <P> 2008. PAUL SCOTT is now forty eight. He lives alone, drives a rusting old Mustang and coaches the over-sixties at a Florida tennis club. He owes money to his Mafioso bookmaker and with payment due and not a cent to his name, only a miracle can save him. <P> A knock at the door brings a visit from a private investigator and some unexpected news. Unbeknown to PAUL, twenty five years ago whilst in Italy, he fathered the child of an old flame, the recently deceased MONICA SERSALE. It turns out that MONICA has left him half a million dollars in her will and as he travels first class to Rome to meet with MONICAS lawyer, he sips Champagne and sighs with relief. His troubles are seemingly over. <P> But life has a habit of pitching PAUL a curve ball. Firstly, the lawyer introduces PAUL to PHILIP BROCKENHURST, an English aristocrat and explains that as MONICA was having affairs with both of them at the same time her daughter was conceived and had no way of establishing exactly who the real father was, she included them both in the will. <P> Secondly, the will has a catch. The daughter ANNA is due to get married in one weeks time and MONICA did not approve of ANNAS choice of husband, the loud, philistine MAX. So, for PAUL and PHILIP to inherit the money they must stop the wedding from taking place. <P> PAUL and PHILIP are from different sides of the Atlantic and equally different social strata and take an instant, almost pathological dislike to one another. But thrown together by different motives (PAULS for money, PHILIPS for paternity) they become unlikely bed-fellows and agree to help each other to prevent the scheming MAX from marrying the adorable ANNA. <P> Its not long before they find themselves driving along the beautiful Italian riviera to the idyllic Neapolitan town of Positano to claim their respective prizes. But what starts as two lonely, bitter, middle-aged mens race against time, becomes a journey of self-discovery and enlightenment when they are forced to confront their past.

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