Projects in genres: Comedy

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Grace Anderson lives a life of numbness, accompanied by the voices in her head.   When her older sister decides to move to Norway, Grace has to take care of herself for the first time - leading her to question her job, her life choices and her very existence.

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Frank McCabe is dead. His son, George, has decided to hold an open wake where people can come and pay their respects. Among these people is Jerry, Frank’s former employee, who knows a thing or two about George and Frank, which other people don’t. Jerry has been cut out of the will and is determined to use any means necessary to get back at both George and Frank.

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Location: present-day London through the eyes of a humble key cutter, Abe (Andrew Lee Potts). Date: not his best day None of these were on his wish list: 1. Mimi (Elena Anaya), his Spanish girlfriend, announces she is pregnant and storms off to Madrid. 2. Debt collector Danny Devine (Robert Carlyle) gives Abe 24 hours to pay of his debts 'or else'. 3. Switching cell phones with Lynch (Gary Oldman), a neurotic hit man. 4. Being wanted dead by at least 2 assassins. 5. Getting a contract to kill a Dead Fish. Abe has to get through the day, without being killed or killing anyone, earning enough dough to pay back Devine and most importantly making sure he doesn't lose the girl he loves.

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Hackney, East London, 2004. A Spanish butcher with a dream: To become a bullfighter. A dream that becomes an obsession. An obsession that overtakes his life. A dream come true.

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Everything is a gentle comedy set in an English seaside town. An artist wakes up one morning to find he has no clean clothes to wear, so he gathers his possessions and takes a circuitous route to the laundromat.

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In Festival, a comedy about the Edinburgh Festival, we get to know a lot of characters. Faith gets off a bus and starts handing out leaflets for her one-woman show. Sean, a famous comedian, is incredibly rude to a radio journalist, live on air. Micheline, a posh Edinburgh housewife, rents out her enormous flat to an experimental theatre group from Canada. She can't help spying on them from the close. At their house in the country, her husband and baby are waiting for her.   Joan, the radio journalist, wants to sleep with the charming Irish comedian Tommy. Does he really like her or does he just want five stars this year? Will the alcoholic PA Petra go off the wagon after a row with her horrible boss Sean? Will the Comedy Award jury ever agree on a shortlist? Who is that beautiful girl comic Nicky flirting with now?   Who will get an audience? Who will win an award? Who will find love, who is really talented and who will be the Next Big Thing?   Festival is about that strange month of August when the whole world comes to Scotland to perform, to watch and to drink, and every show promises to be better than the last one. For one month a year, for some people, Edinburgh becomes the centre of the universe.

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Scott Martin is your average 18 year old.  He's happy with his friends Paul, Craig and Jasper. He's also happy with his girlfriend, Frankie. Scott's fallen completely in love with her, and believes she feels the same. She doesn't. Scott's friends soon find out that Frankie is seeing another guy, Cris. And, as any good friends would, they tell Scott, who of course is devastated. It's at this point that Paul jumps in and decides Frankie needs a taste of some kind of medicine: it's not her own, but hey, it works! So, the four friends set out to get cruel, yet comical revenge on Frankie.

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Horror movie addict, Merv, dreams come true when a hapless escaped mental patient stumbles onto his doorstep. Seeing an opportunity, Merv and his best pal Onkey set about turning the naive unbalanced individual into a textbook horror flesh-slashing psycho. There are consequences to their actions however.

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Circa 1910, John Mapplethorpe, a graduate student is writing his thesis on the world renowned Dr. Sigmund Freud. To conclude his paper he is en route to interview the great man at Oxford University. But his encounter is not quite what anyone could have expected.

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Billy Gibbons lives in a village called Audlem in Cheshire, quite an odd place, which sometimes has a slight feel of League of Gentlemen about it. Still, Billy stands out -  every aspect of his existence is somehow rooted in the 1950s: from his clothes, house, car, music to his rocket man objects which signify the 50s exploration of space and lunar landing.   This documentary shows the lifestyle and multiple characters of this unusual man.

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Based on the novel No One Thinks of Greenland  by John Griesener. A biting comedy in the  tradition of Catch 22 and M*A*S*H.   1979: Qangattarsa - Top Secret Military Hospital.   The Vietnam War ended four years ago. Reagan has just announced his intention to stand for President with George Bush as his running mate on a ticket of 'Peace Through Strength'. The US military kicks into action with a huge injection of finance and the USSR is about to lose the cold war.   Meanwhile on Qangattarsa military base, Rudy Spruance is lost. Dropped off in the middle of no-where in the frozen wastes of the Artic. No one comes.   The Army doesn't make mistakes. As he comes round in an army hospital that doesn't offically exist, Rudy understands what it is to be on the sharp end of a 'small clerical error'.   'You'll want to scratch,' he's told when he comes around.   'Don't.' advises the orderly.

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Bob hates hiccups. Bob has hiccups. Will Bob kill the hiccups or will the hiccups kill Bob?