Wreckers – review

In writer-director Hood's ambitious low-budget debut, David and Dawn (well played by Benedict Cumberbatch and Claire Foy) are a pair of teachers anxious to start a family. Unwisely they return to his family roots in a gossipy East Anglian village, where skeletons fall out of cupboards, chicken come home to roost, and similar cliches are on hand to greet them. The worst thing is a surprise visit from David's estranged brother, a traumatised veteran of the Afghanistan war. There are echoes of films as different as Losey's Accident and Peckinpah's Straw Dogs, although an alternately underwritten and overly emphatic film needed more work on the script. But it's a promising film.