Fairford filmmaker vies for audiences with Viagra comedy
The 47-year-old says he has had more than a little fun working on comedy Holy Water, which is released on Friday.
Tom, who lives in Fairford, near Cirencester, was heavily influenced by the Full Monty, and The Italian Job, directing the raunchy tale.
It follows four no-hope bachelors from the small Irish village of Killcoulin's Leap who decide to hijack an 18-ton shipment of Viagra and sell it for $63 million in Amsterdam.
They hide their haul in the church well – which also happens to supply the village's water.
Tom said: "It's definitely a naughty comedy and categorically I want to make people laugh.
"There's no other reason to make a comedy of any kind. There are plenty of serious movies out there by experts such as Avatar but it's very difficult to laugh at it.
"My first point of reference was the Full Monty.
"Holy Water reflects the same situation of no life, no hope, no money and no future and people driven to desperate measures to find a way out.
"The four guys decide to steal from the Americans, because they're there to be stolen from, especially large pharmaceutical companies.
"And when they plan the heist our four idiots actually take notes about The Italian Job, but they pull it off absolutely terribly.
"They then wake up to the fact they've committed the biggest crime in Irish history and wonder how are they going to get away with it?"
The low-budget movie pulled in top-flight names including Linda Hamilton, who starred in The Terminator, John Lynch from Sliding Doors, and Tiny Lister of The Dark Knight fame.
It was shot in the former National Shire Horse Centre at Yelverton, Devon.
The overgrown and run-down site doubled as an entire Irish village.
Tom started working on the movie eight years ago.
His last big picture was George and the Dragon, the late Patrick Swayze's last film.
He said: "It's great to be able to say I've worked with him but that also we became friends, being on set for nine weeks. And another highlight was working with my father, Geoffrey, on the 1983 film The Shooting Party, co-ordinating production."
The film will show at selected cinemas. To see a trailer, visit www.holywatermovie.com.
funny man: Tom Reeve, from Fairford, has directed a new comedy called Holy Water (right)
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