Projects in genres: Comedy

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Kevin, an inept young would-be criminal, needs money fast to pay back the local crime lord, a sword-wielding sociopath. Breaking into the home of an eccentric recluse seems to Kevin a likely plan, until the enraged old man unexpectedly shows up with a gun.
The strange bond that forms between these two misfits becomes the premise of this unusual comedy-drama.

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20 WAYS takes an entertaining and intelligent look at immigration, using humor to explore this contemporary global issue. Inspired by an absurd US article that proposed twenty ways to spot illegals. 20 Ways looks at the danger of profiling through the experience of a Jewish family in 1930's Europe.

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A married couples relationship radically disintegrates after a tree in the garden is cut down

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An up-beat comic extravaganza involving the family of
a football obsessed grandfather, a women's fitness centre manager and
mother, a dodgy car dealer and twin daughters lifeguards.

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What happens when you put a blindly enthusiastic American with a disneyfied view of English life in charge of a run-down inner city British library?

Welcome to Shawcross Library managed by Mia Taylor-Clarke - hoping to kick of her reign with a book reading to remember of Philip Dunleavy's Survivors - a 9/11 memoir - rather than the Zombie Apocalypse novel she thought she was hosting.

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Fat Cat is a gangster comedy set in Italy and in London. It 's the story of two goofy criminals from Italy that get in trouble with their boss, a schizophrenic and flamboyant crime lord named Mosca, and will struggle to come out of this situation alive.

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Dick and Harry Bridges are newly married and Dick has organised their honeymoon getaway as a do-it-yourself cruise on a West Midland backwater canal.

Harry, a girl of means, is crestfallen at the cheapness of Dick’s honeymoon plans but soon starts to like the carefree world of canal life when Dick employs Tom, a local pikey, to help steer them through the gates and locks.

Meanwhile, Dick has employed Sunshine an incompetent hit-man to kill his wife so he can collect on her life insurance, but the presence of Tom complicates Sunshine’s attempts to do away with her.

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On Erin Island, an idyllic rural fishing village off the coast of Ireland, Ciarán O’Shea, the charming but heavy-drinking local policeman, is tasked with greeting Lisa Nolan, a straightlaced young officer who has just arrived off the ferry. Not that there’s much for them to do, aside from dealing with the occasional drunk, and that’s usually O’Shea himself.

But strange doings are afoot: the crew of a fishing boat disappears, whales start appearing dead on the shore, a local lobsterman catches a strange tentacled creature in his trap. Soon it becomes clear to O’Shea and Nolan that there’s something big out there, and that it’s hungry. It’s time to rally the villagers, arm the troops…and head to the pub.

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Two enterprising alter boys try to re-invest the church collection, but nothing seems to go to plan, with comedic results. They are forced to examine their choices and their friendship.

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In 1315, two young men encounter a traveling philosopher who proposes a very strange idea: there might not be a God or indeed any life other than this one. Magic, terror and comedy ensue.

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A unique comedy in which three idiots attempt to stage an epic. The Bubonic Play is the story of a maid, her master and a wandering minstrel caught in a tragic love triangle. It follows their journey across the plague-ravaged English Countryside in search of a cure for the disease. Lord George of Ponsonby is in love with his young maid Mathilde. She discovers a handsome minstrel bathing in the river and they run off together. Enraged, George vows revenge and sets off to intercept them. The story survives all assaults from the actors' need to be the audience's favourite. Love, songs, magical potions, deception, knife-fights, stampeding rats, Punch and Judy all feature before the play's dramatic climax. They die. All of them. One by one.

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Maggie and Charles could be soul mates, but they’re destined to never meet. So Eve covertly sets ‘the dinner date’ into action amidst her boyfriend Steve’s protest. But with this seemingly good intention comes an unforeseen dilemma. Will Eve wish she had never tampered with fate?