One For The Road DVD – Jonny Phillips, Dena Smiles 

This dark comedy, the debut feature for British writer/director Chris Cooke, follows four men who meet on a rehabilitation course for drink-drivers: ambitious young entrepreneur Jimmy (Gregory Chisholm), former Salesman of the Year Paul (Rupert Procter), retired millionaire property tycoon Richard (Hywel Bennett) and philosophical, spliff-smoking cabbie Mark (Mark Devenport). Through the workshops and role-playing activities of the course, the men form unexpected and life-changing bonds – but shadows are lurking beneath the surface of their token efforts to kick the demon drink…

Jimmy (Chisholm) is young ambitious and desperate to sell his late father’s business. However his alcohol problems have prompted him to attend a rehabilitation course for drink drivers. Here he meets salesman Paul (Procter) taxi driver Mark (Devenport) and retired property tycoon Richard (Bennett). Bonds are unexpectedly formed through the workshops but equally Richard’s millions become a lure to the others who plot to sell him Jimmy’s ailing business and to relieve him of his weal