Stutterer (2015)
Director: Benjamin Cleary · Writer: Benjamin Cleary
A lonely typographer with a cruel speech impediment but an eloquent inner voice must face his greatest fear.
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Director
Benjamin Cleary
Cast
Matthew Needham
Greenwood Carsen 
Chloe Pirrie
Ellie Parks 
Eric Richard
Greenwood's Dad 
Richard Mason
Angry boyfriend 
Sophie Ellerby
Girlfriend 
Calum Sivyer
Teenage boy
Sophie Cotton
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An attractively tousled young typesetter (Matthew Needham) lives with his dad (Eric Richard) and has been having a six-month long online chat with "Ellie” (Chloe Pirrie). Why make a film about him? Well he stutters. Making himself verbally understood in an impatient world is nigh on impossible, and with the exception of his father he chats to nobody - preferring on occasion to pretend he is mute. Then “Ellie” announces that she is coming to London and wants to meet. Clearly their chat hasn’t revealed that he has difficulties with his speech and so he faces a crisis. Does he meet and risk disappointing her or does he feign some excuse? On the other hand, who's to say that perhaps she hasn’t secrets of her own? Can he find the courage? I found this to be a really quite poignant glimpse into a world where one of our most basic communication skills is unavailable and it’s unnervi…
