THE ALL TOGETHER stars Martin Freeman as Chris – a frustrated TV producer who is forced to leave his unreliable flatmate, Bob played by Velibor Topic in charge of showing a series of real estate agents around the house he is trying to sell. Worried by Bob’s habit of spending all day working in the basement playing loud music and creating his bizarre artwork, Chris asks his friend to listen out for the door bell and show anyone who comes calling inside. Bob promises to do exactly that and for once, not to let him down.Pining for his ex-girlfriend and fed up with his career as a producer of the late-night comedy show, ‘Ritual Humiliation’ hosted by the loathsome Jerry Davies, played by Richard Harrington, Chris has decided to sell his flat with the vague notion of somehow regaining control over his life and of course, to rid himself of Bob.Penny-less Bosnian would-be artist and amateur taxidermist, Bob hasn’t had a paying job since arriving in the country five years ago, preferring instead to rely on Chris’ good nature by virtually squatting in his spare room and using his cellar to construct his works of art - strange sculptures of dead animals engaging in inter-species sex. Bob thinks his work “challenges human preconceptions about sex and the animal kingdom”. Chris thinks it’s twisted and wrong. Meanwhile, elsewhere a neurotic and fastidious American gangster named Mr Gaspardi played by Corey Johnson is being chauffeured to the airport by his vain, celebrity-obsessed British host, a London criminal named Dennis Earle played by Danny Dyer, when he is struck down by chronic food poisoning.Running out of petrol on a suburban street, the incapacitated yet toilet-phobic American is forced to use the lavatory of the nearest residential house. Chris’ house. Mistaking them for estate agents, Bob immediately invites Mr Gaspardi and Dennis into the house and shows the sick gangster to the nearest lavatory. Only when the incapacitated Mr Gaspardi emerges does he realise that his trigger-happy partner has shot a hole in a water main and set in motion an accidental hostage situation that soon involves an ever-growing list bizarre captives. When he returns home that evening, Chris is rather surprised to find his flatmate Bob, four estate agents, two Jehovah's Witnesses, a corpse and a terrified children's entertainer in what remains of his flooded kitchen. Of course, a flooded kitchen full of gagged and bound estate agents doesn’t mean the end of the world, but the half-crazed American sitting outside the toilet with a gun, just might.
THE ALL TOGETHER is produced by Establishment Films, a company formed in December 2004 by comedy writer/director/producer Gavin Claxton and producer Annabel Raftery. THE ALL TOGETHER took just over a year to develop, produce and shoot and was shot entirely on HiDef. The 18 day shoot started on Thursday 3 February 2005 on locations in and around Wimbledon, Battersea and Stoke Newington and featured an ensemble cast and crew of just 28.The All Together