Shallow Grave is a 1994 British black comedy thriller film that marks the directorial debut of Danny Boyle with an original screenplay by John Hodge. The film also provided starring roles for the then relatively little-known actors Ewan McGregor, Christopher Eccleston and Kerry Fox. The production was funded by Channel 4 television and the film distributed by PolyGram Filmed Entertainment who as with their other releases generated a large amount of publicity for the film on a limited budget. David , a chartered accountant, Juliet , a doctor, and Alex , a journalist, are three friends who... share a flat in Edinburgh. They need a new flatmate and, after a sequence of interviews, in which unwanted applicants are rejected with calculated cruelty, they take in the mysterious Hugo . When Hugo suddenly dies of a drug overdose, they discover that he has a very large amount of cash in a suitcase. The three decide to keep the money and to dispose of Hugo's corpse in the titular shallow grave. To prevent the body's identification they saw off his head and hands which Juliet disposes of at work in a medical waste incinerator.
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| Release date: | 1994 |
| Directed by: | Danny Boyle |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 89 Minutes |
| Producer: | Andrew MacDonald |
| Music by: | Simon Boswell |
| Screenplay by: | John Hodge |
| Estimated budget: | $2,500,000 |
| Genre: | Thriller |