Stars: Nick Moran, Neil Stuke, Kate Ashfield, Shirley Ann Field, Marcello Mazzarella, Shirley Ann Field, Mattia Sbragia

Director: Paul Tickell

Summary: The story of a man who uses double-entry book-keeping principles to run his life...

Nick Moran stars in this drama as Christie Malry, a lowly bank worker who indulges in extreme fantasies of sex and violence to escape his humdrum life of a job he hates and having to care for his dying mother. Whilst taking an evening class, Christie learns the principles of double-entry bookkeeping and adopts the theory that for every credit there must be a debit for his own life. Soon enough he uses these 'credits' to avenge those he feels have wronged him, and these acts of revenge rapidly get out of hand. Set against this is the equally interesting story of Pacioli, the monk who invented double-entry bookkeeping in Renaissance Italy.

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Christie Malry's Own Double Entry is the revenge fantasy of a resentful, humiliated, somewhat simple office wage-slave who undergoes an epiphany in the unlikely surroundings of a lecture on accountancy. Malry, superbly depicted by Nick Moran as a sort of English Timothy McVeigh, decides to allocate a monetary value to every single act of, as he puts it, "casualness, indifference and mass carelessness" that besets him, and to exact appropriate recompense. As the debt grows, so do Malry's retributions, from disfiguring the paintwork of a Rolls-Royce to poisoning a substantial percentage of London.

Based on the novel by B.S. Johnson, the film is funny and clever, making inventive use of flashbacks, and the echoes of broadly similar fables, like Taxi Driver and Falling Down, are never loud enough to be distracting. An overall atmosphere of tensing malevolence is abetted by a terrific soundtrack of original songs by Auteurs and Black Box Recorder songwriter Luke Haines. The only duff notes the film strikes are the initially engaging but eventually utterly baffling excursions to the Renaissance court of an Italian prince. Aside from this one over-ambitious conceit, this is a fine and mystifyingly under-rated film.

On the DVD:Christie Malry's Own Double Entry includes only the original theatrical trailer as a special feature. It is all too easy to imagine that an advertisement for a product you've already paid for is exactly the kind of thing that Christie Malry would have entered in the "Debit" side of his ledger. --Andrew Muller

Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Audio Commentaries - 1. Paul Tickell - Director, 2. Nick Moran - Star, Trailer - 1. Original Theatrical Trailer, Featurettes, Interview - 1. Paul Tickell - Director, Stills Gallery, Reviews
Year:	2000
Release Date:	September 22, 2003
Runtime:	91 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	I P D 10736
Keywords:	Christie, Own, Double, General, Entry, Drama, Christy, Malry's
Genre:	Drama