[1] It was made by BBC Films and directed by Guy Myhill from his own screenplay.
[2] "Goob" Taylor is a school leaver with an abusive stepfather, trapped in rural poverty in Norfolk.
He clashes with brutal stock car racer Gene Womack for his mother's attention and falls for a foreign field worker.
The Goob was filmed in Norfolk, including a disused diner at Necton and stock car racing scenes at Swaffham Raceway.
[3] Luke Abbott's "evocative, atmospheric synthscapes" for The Goob won the award for 'Best Music' at the Stockholm International Film Festival, before being released under the title Music For A Flat Landscape.