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The Good Neighbour is a 2018 film from writer and director Jonathan Reid-Edwards. It was produced by Kate Tuck and Jonathan Reid-Edwards, both of Black House Pictures, from their own original story.

The film stars Fiona Hampton, George Taylor, Nathalie Cox and Nathan Wiley. It was shot near Hastings in 2017 and funded partly by a successful campaign on the crowdfunding website Indiegogo.

The plot centres on the experiences of Jodie, a woman with Multiple Sclerosis struggling to come to terms with the disease who lives and works on a farm. As her struggle with the disease deepens so her relationship with her husband and workers becomes more strained. The arrival of a mystery woman - and her accomplice - in the area searching for a stranger sets in train events that leave her without help on the farm while her architect husband is away. The situation is further complicated by the appearance of a naked mute stranger without genitals in her farm yard. Assuming him to be ill or injured she takes the traveller in, discovering in the process that his touch is able to temporarily relieve her symptoms. As he recovers, she also finds that his pragmatic approach to farm work allows her to re-establish a tenative basis to move forwards. Their relationship deepens until Jodie discovers a grisly truth about the disappearance of two of her formerworkers that forces her to send the traveller away. With the loss of her new friend and his powers to help her, Jodie settles to discuss and deal with her diagnosis for the first time.

The film's score was composed by Stefan Melzak with parts of the score played by the Hungarian Studio Orchestra in Budapest and recorded in London by Phil Jewson and Paul Cartledge of Yellow Boat Music.

The Good Neighbour is the first feature length film from Black House pictures who have previously won international recognition for their short films including