Born Equal

Born Equal is a television film produced for the BBC exploring aspects of poverty, race, inequality, homelessness, immigration and class in modern Britain. Written and directed by Dominic Savage and starring Colin Firth, Robert Carlyle, David Oyelowo, Anne-Marie Duff, and Emilia Fox, it was likened to a British version of the Oscar-winning Crash. Its working title was London/The London Project--and another proposed title was To Have and Have Not--but by the time of its broadcast on BBC 1 on 17 December 2006 it had been renamed. Among other noteworthy features, the film was not scripted--the actors improvised their lines with the cameras rolling, working with no script and no rehearsals. Mark (Colin Firth) lives in central London with...