12 in a Box
12 in a Box is a 2007 Independent British comedy film written and directed by John McKenzie.
Plot
12 in a Box sees twelve people attend what they think is a school reunion lunch but when they get there they discover that, as part of the last wish of a dead classmate, they will inherit £1,000,000 each if they can all stay together in the house for 96 hours. With one of the participants due to be married and another dropping stone dead on the first day, they have their work cut out to go the distance.
Release
The film was given a limited European release in 2007 and had its US premiere in Boston in 2009. Despite being a British film with some notable names in the cast, it was not released in the UK until March 2013.
Critical response
The film received the Audience Award at the 2007 Zurich Film Festival, Indie Spirit Best Storyline Award at the 2009 Boston International Film Festival and the Best Film Award at the 2009 LA British Film Festival. The LA Campus Circle graded the film A- and called it "smart, funny and surprising without being pretentious or hackneyed. There are few dull moments, and it actually succeeds in pulling off the twists." The film was also praised by The Film Review and CineVue.The Guardian, however, gave it a poor review, as did the Radio Times and the Daily Express.
In a Box
In A Box is the first official release by Ammonia, released in 1994.
Formats & Tracklistings
- "In A Box"
- "White"
- "Lucky No. 3"
- "Burning Plant Smell"
- "Dr. Strangeleave"
- "In A Box [Tom Lord-Alge Mix]"
- "In A Box [Album Version]"
Podcasts:
In A Box
With friends like you, who needs enemies.
You got the coolest shoes but paid for them with pennies.
You're clouding up my views cuz you haven't got any, and everything I tried to do for you is lost,
and it's all gone now.
Your only sense of change is in your pocket,
and if I owned a door you can bet I'd lock it.
I'd throw away the key unless you fucking stop it and everything I tried to do for you is lost,
and it's all gone now.
And I am sitting beside myself as I'm looking for you in the lost and found.
In a box on the floor, near the back door.
With the things people don't really want anymore.
What's that you say, you like it there, in a box on the floor where you don't have to care.
In case you think you're qualified to make it out of there on your own and alive,
start thinking again, cuz the people you're with, they're not your friends.
They have left you all alone, away from your home.
There will come a time when all your troubles, exceed your higher mind and make you see double,
and now you need a dime to patch your bursted bubble and any other time,
I'd do it for you with out a shadow of a doubt.
But now I'm sitting beside myself as I'm looking for you in the lost and found.
Chorus
You do it every time, say you're gonna turn your life around and around and here we go again.
Have you lost your mind?
What kinda person do you take me... for my good friend,
I am looking...