Projects in genres: Comedy

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Deadpan Valentine is a black comedy that follows the adventures of two very different flatmates during one grim Valentine's Day. In essence, it's an Anti Rom-Com.

Two young men, Scott and Jamie, share a grubby London council flat. Scott seems to think he’s got it made; he’s got a lovely head of hair, a beautiful new girlfriend and a bit on the side. If one man wasn’t blessed enough, he’s also the natural successor to Marlon Brando and a fringe theatre play appears to the ideal vehicle for his talent. However, today is the perfect day for a few lessons in love and acting.

Jamie is severely depressed. Valentine’s Day is an insult too far and suicide seems like the only way out. But he doesn’t have much luck completing the task. In his befuddled state of mind, he answers the door to a gun-toting stranger, Bruce, who mistakes him for Scott. Bruce takes Jamie captive and is surprised to discover that his 'hard man' routine does little to unnerve his straight-faced hostage.
 

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The film centres around a Dentist (Paul) his wife (Kate) and the Dentist's old school friend (Jack).

Jack's a womanising estate agent who doesn't have much time for other people; Paul's an upstanding Dentist with a lovely wife; but just how much does Paul know?

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A devil dances to techno in the forest. He comes across a group of campers by a fire and dances them into oblivion.

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With Cole Porter's songs, Divine Inspiration is a musical comedy about Kenneth Hawkstone, an artistic genius who can paint, write, direct and also date models. But he's suffering a mid-life and a spiritual crisis that affects his creativity. When he affirms that he doesn't believe in God, God is surprised because Kenneth is 'her' favorite creation and wants to meet him immediately.

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Ben, 39, Leo, Castrated Mongrel, Needs Love, GSOH Essential.
 

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Screwball comedy, setting in the 40s. Carole Hackensack, an ederly lady, has been arrested. She tries to explain her adventure.

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The Graduate meets Harold and Maude in this rites-of-passage comedy with yet another dreary school holiday coming around for the shy and downtrodden Ben (Rupert Grint). Seventeen years of living in an absurdly conservative and traditional household with his highly-strung and overbearing mother (Laura Linney) and quiet, mild-mannered vicar father have taken their toll on young Ben. While the other kids are out having fun, Ben spends these precious few weeks attending Bible classes, having driving lessons with his mother and helping out at a local old people's home.

However, Ben's world is turned upside down when he's employed by an eccentric retired actress Evie (Julie Walters). Vulgar, dignified and childish all at once, she certainly is not the kind of person Ben expected when searching through the job listings in the stuffy parish magazine, Hello Jesus. Evie enters Ben's life with a cataclysmic force, whisking him away on a series of adventures from camping to performing Shakespeare in the garden, to attending the Edinburgh Festival - where he finally meets a girl much nearer his own age.

Evie's unconventional and often downright bizarre behaviour challenges Ben's beliefs, and forces him to confront the very idea of who he wants to be. Then, when it seems that his new-found freedom is about to be taken away, Ben has to suddenly choose: should he continue to conform, or break out and live his life as his own man?

Driving Lessons is a heartfelt, touching and positively hilarious look at the effect one delightfully eccentric older woman can have on a young man with a lot to learn.

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An all-gay football team in an amateur football league gets the chance of a lifetime when they have the opportunity to play against the big guns.

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Having telephoned the classified advertisement section of is local newspaper, Father Christmas then proceeds to try and place an advertisement for his replacement.

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Six actors punch, kick and wrestle their way through the Wild West of an East London drinking establishment.

The ritual of the Western bar-brawl is relocated in a London working men's club.

The formal approach (to choreography, framing and editing) ensures that the viewer is made aware of the choreographed nature of the violence. This violence appears to have no consequences, the actors' bodies being as rubbery and invulnerable as those in the television Westerns that inspired it.

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Philip and Casper, two flatmates in London’s east end, flip a coin about most decisions in their lives, but mostly about women. Though Philip is the one to win the tosses, Casper is the one with the ladies. Philip silently blames Casper for his own aimless life, always being broke and never being able to pay the rent. But when beautiful French girl Marie enters their life, things drastically change and Philip is not prepared to let Casper play his cheap tricks this time. Marie was meant to rent Casper’s room while he went to Spain for a week, but Casper misses his flight and soon the two friends stand head to head over love. Just before things get really serious Marie introduces the idea that they should rob the rich family for whom she works as an au-pair and run away with the money. All three of them, together. But in the house lurkes unpredictable danger.
 

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'Plain Jane' Sylvia is chronically lacking in self-confidence, suffering constant put-downs and the ever-present threat of 'eviction' from the call centre where she slaves away under the watchful eye of her monstrous boss and his sexy assistant. But when gorgeous guitarist Pablo enters her life, the sexy flamenco rhythms begin to move her feet, and Sylvia blossoms.

When Sylvia's well-meaning dad surprises her with a devastating revelation, Sylvia's world is turned upside-down. But will she crumble or prove herself at the local flamenco contest?

An uplifting, feel-good, Brit comedy drama, Flirting with Flamenco will have you laughing, crying and feeling empowered to turn your life around.