Projects in genres: Comedy

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'Miss King's been taken ill, unfortunately, so you've got me, that's the bad news. The good news is we're going to have a film so you won't need your books - it's about the birds and the bees'.

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Earthquake! Run for the hills you fools, run for the hills! Aaaaaaaaargh!
 
Terror hits the West Coast as a violent quake shakes the marrow out of every bone in this festival favourite and Sundance award winner.

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Eddie Smallcock has a problem of a supernatural nature.
 
Can the bizarre Dr Ivor Steamchugger and the beautiful ex bomb Mr Linda Heliotrope help?

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Fakers is an off-beat, comedy crime caper set in the London art world. Nick Edwards (Matthew Rhys) owes £50,000 and has no way of paying-off wannabe crime lord Foster Wright (Art Malik).  This is until he stumbles across a lost sketch by legendary Italian artist Antonio Fraccini. Problem is it's only worth £15,000. A plan is hatched; to forge the drawing and sell it to five Mayfair galleries within an hour before anyone cottons onto the fact that there's a scam going down.
 
Fakers is a high-spirited and overtly optimistiv romp through the territory of trust, love, ingenuity and the desperation involved in trying to survive.

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Fat Slags charts the rise and fall of our two eponymous heroines, who are unrepentantly vulgar and crass. Leaving their home town of Fulchester in the North of England, Sandra and Tracy head for the bright lights of London, shagging and boozing their way to fame and fortune.

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What they thought was going to be a dull summer in the country is about to become the most exciting adventure of their lives, when five children dig up an eight thousand year old sand-fairy who is prepared to make their wildest dreams come true - at a price.

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Following Yago is a quirky study of married life. It takes the popular genre of romantic comedy and shifts the focus away from the typical 'boy meets girl' scenario to examine how a couple stay together and whether this is the basis of true love.
 
Jack has recently given up his full-time job to concentrate on writing a book on the Mary Rose.  Finding it easier to work at  night, his routine has changed and he now sleeps during the day.  Meanwhile, his wife, Maddy, continues her job as a photographer in order to support them both.  Then, one day, much to Jack's horror, Maddy brings home a self-help book with a view to improving what Jack thought was a perfectly happy relationship.
 
The film is, unusually, set completely in one location (the couple's house) with only the two lead characters seen throughout. By giving the audience a private insight into their lives behind closed doors, the story explores how situations that occur in our outside lives affect us and, in turn, our personal relationships.

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After being knocked out, an erratic Paul Hunt believes he has been the victim of a mugging, robbed of £1000, a deposit for his new house. Relationships are already strained between his new wife and his elderly father who all live under the same roof. Paul is now under pressure at his new job as a double glazing sales man for tyrant Big Al, under pressure to care for his devoting father and under pressure to get the money back, before his pregnant wife finds out.
 
Life just can't get worse for the trainee salesman as his boss forces him to wear glasses - "They make you look 17% more intelligent" - his new company car looks like Tweety Pie on wheels and his wife's on his back to get a new home.
 
Made on a shoestring, yet glittering with wit and invention - and jam-packed with brilliant set-pieces - Finnigan's digital feature is a superb example of Scottish independent filmmaking.

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To set the scene - the year is 55 B.C. The Romans are beating a bloody swathe across the European continent. Any nation daring to defy them is swiftly and brutally crushed into servitude. Mighty Gaul has just fallen and Rome has set its sights upon a small, cold and rather damp island across the narrow waters of the Channel.
 
Now, with the Romans invading, it is up to three sisters to save their country from the bonds of slavery.
 
Smirgut - Magnificently strong, she towers over most men and then beats them into unconsciousness with a large club.
 
Dwyfuc - Exquisitely beautiful  and irrestible to men, she is also very spoilt and something of a control freak. 
 
And finally, Worthaboutapig - the youngest, plainest and undoubtedly dumbest of them all.
 
Gladiatress - A tale of three sisters against the entire Roman Empire. With a little help from the Gods, an emormous amount of luck and a really big axe - they just might be able to do it.

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Charming black comedy about a shy young boy forced to deal with the death of his best friend. By using his fertile imagination and passion for electronics, the boy temporarily resurrects his friend. However, things start to change when the dead friend takes on a life of his own.

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Gordon is about to be 40. Perhaps it's time to grow up. A musical comedy from the streets of Hackney.
 
Gordon Bennett is a small time drug dealer who bypasses the normal responsibilities of a working man and father. He drifts through life like a puff of marijuana smoke on a summer breeze. His saving grace are a romantic imagination coupled with an optimistic belief that his life will get better.

Over the forty-eight hours that take him to the night of his fortieth birthday his optimism is mangled by a series of events instigated by friends, family and fate, coincidences that should make him change his life for good.
 
The film begins with a council tax dispute and ends with a stabbing on a council estate pavement, via a scheming father, a burglarising ex-wife, a custom dream car, two Danish junkies, half a kilo of coke in a goldfish bowl, three singing villains with varying degrees of psychosis, a very bad trip, a mysterious stripper, a disappearing boat on the River Thames and far too much marijuana.

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Headrush is a crazy caper comedy about two young stoners Charlie and T-Bag, orbiting society in a haze of dope and dreams. But when Charlie gets dumped by his girlfriend Vicky, and kicked off the dole, he crashes to earth desperate to get her back. T-Bag hears on the grapevine that a notorious underworld criminal is looking for new mules, so Charlie conceives an elaborate scam to smuggle a consignment of cocaine back from Amsterdam.
 
As their scam unfolds, a series of comic coincidences begin to unravel their carefully laid plans resulting in both the gangsters and the cops hot on their trail. The proverbial fish out of water, Charlie and T-Bag find themselves sinking deeper and deeper into trouble.