THE RULE OF JENNY PEN

By James ASHCROFT

STELLA MARIS PRODUCTION - as PROD

Book adaptation - Development 2022

Confined to a secluded rest home, an ailing
Judge must stop an elderly tyrant who employs
a child’s puppet to abuse the home’s residents
with deadly consequences.

    • Year of production
    • 2022
    • Genres
    • Book adaptation, Thriller
    • Countries
    • NEW ZEALAND
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH
    • Budget
    • 5 - 10 M$
    • Duration
    • 100 mn
    • Director(s)
    • James ASHCROFT
    • Writer(s)
    • Eli KENT, James ASHCROFT
    • Producer(s)
    • Catherine FITZGERALD (BLUESKIN FILMS LTD), Orlando STEWART (STELLA MARIS PRODUCTION)
    • Synopsis
    • When ailing Judge Mortensen suffers a near
      fatal stroke, he’s placed into rest home care.
      Recuperating in isolation, Mortensen refuses
      to cooperate with staff or integrate into
      the community. The situation grows worse
      when he discovers an aging tyrant covertly
      tormenting members of the community
      with a child’s puppet ‘Jenny Pen’. Dave
      Crealy has long enjoyed abusing his fellow
      residents in secret and soon turns his focus
      on the vulnerable new arrival. As the assaults
      escalate a diagnosis of onset dementia leaves
      Mortensen’s pleas to staff ignored. But when a
      series of fatal accidents plague the community,
      the disillusioned lawmaker is forced to take
      matters into his own hands and put an end to
      ‘The Rule of Jenny Pen’.