Projects in genres: Comedy

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Developed from a collaboration between dancer Pete Shenton and film maker Laura Smith, Shaker is a tongue-in-cheek mix of dance and comedy, in which a man tries to capture the heart of a female choreographer, who's only wish is to disappear.

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"We were sexy, stylish, we had short sharp songs. We had a kind of manifesto, which was that we were against everything else that was around at the time - which probably accounts for our almost complete lack of success." Singer Pat Reid looks back on his band, the heroically ill-fated Evangelista.

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Heartlands is the richly comic story of a man who decides to give up his local shop and travel on an odyssey across the heartland's of England to retrieve his first love, his friends and his dignity.

Colin is a naïve, gentle man whose life is turned upside down when his wife leaves him for the captain of the local darts team. He follows them to Blackpool from the Midlands on his beloved Honda 50, stopping and meeting an odd variety of new friends on the road who in different ways help him work out what he has to do to mend his broken heart and salvage the rest of this life.

The film is a humorous tale of innocence seen through the eyes of a man who has never quite grown up and must, for the first time, confront the outside world. It is set in the beautiful, mysterious landscape of the Peak District in the North of England, populated by a bizarre collection of campers, ramblers and hikers all at one with their surroundings.

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London 2001. The future has arrived, but Jaz and Naz are disappointed with the science fiction they grew up with. Until their unintentional involvement with a bunch of East End criminals makes a dream come true.

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This comic drama is about three different people on a survival weekend, where the only food is our Hero - a streetwise chicken called Lunch, who is determined not to become anybody's last supper! The film is told from the chicken's point of view and was shot in the Western genre.

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An offbeat comedy set in the badlands of an East London park. Our distraught hero meets his fairy godmother who enlists the help of a magnificent seven to reunite him with his lost love, culminating in a trade-off with all the intensity of a spaghetti western show-down.

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A man goes through three years of a relationship in three days. A romantic comedy.

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Mrs Caldicot's Cabbage War is the poignant, warm and often funny story of an ordinary woman who, after being pushed around by others for most of her life, finally decides to stand up for herself.

Thelma Caldicot has endured thirty years of dull, boring marriage to a dominating and insensitive husband. When two police officers bring the news of her unexpected widowhood, a sequence of events lead to a radical change in her way of life.

Before she has time to take stock of her new situation, her son Derek, an ambitious man in spite of inheriting his father's dullness, arrives with his dreadful family and begins to interfere and dominate her life.

After years of being bullied and pushed around, Mrs Caldicot's dormant self awakens, making her determined to take charge of her own life. Forced out of home into care, she acquires a band of strange new friends who look to her for help and assistance. These new responsibilities give her life a purpose, allowing her to find the courage to face up to any adversity, whether it comes in the shape of an unpleasant TV personality or the odious manager of a Rest Home.

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This comedy takes a riotous look at small town Welsh country life centered around competing funeral homes.

Boris Plotz, Director of Plotz Funeral Homes, dreamed of only two things as a young boy... dancing and Betty. Betty secretly loved Boris, but could not fight her father's wishes, so she was married off to a gold digger. Boris gave up his dreams and took over the family's undertaking business. Everything has remained status quo in their lives until Betty's mother-in-law dies. Boris and Betty are thrust together again and as they discuss the funeral arrangements for Betty's mother-in-law, the old spark is rekindled.

Her funeral will be held at Plotz Funeral Homes, much to the chagrin of rival funeral director, Frank Featherbed. Featherbed, an American, is determined to revolutionise the undertaking business in England through the innovation of 'theme' funerals.

Boris discovers that the only obstacle between their love for one another, is her marriage to the two-timing Mayor. In a desperate bid for happiness Boris and Betty decide to stage her death and run away together.

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Based on Spike Milligan's legendary comic masterpiece, which has sold over five million copies to date, Puckoon is a politically true, politically incorrect and profoundly funny tale.

It's 1924, and the Boundary Commission from Britain and Ireland is deciding on the new boundary line between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic.

After months of haggling over every inch of territory, the commissioners are forced to finish the job by hand, after a bicycle accident destroys the surveyor's equipment.

With all the participants holding the pencil, and much pushing and shoving, the border finds its way down the middle of Puckoon, dividing house from outhouse, man from wife, pub from bar, church from cemetery. Our hero, Dan Madigan, wakes up from his indolence to find the beer cheaper on the wrong side of the pub, and a border patrol demanding passports. Puckoon will never be the same again. Something has to be done.

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Relativity is a funny, sexy, look at the fragmenting family. Seven-year-old Cielle, her black British mother Marcia and latest boyfriend Frank describe a minor domestic 'accident'. One event, three different versions. But which, if any, is the truth? By chance, Cielle reveals the comic absurdity of modern existence.

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Silent Night is a sad little comedy based on a 1950's news item. Escaped convict, Efian Price runs home to hide. Seeing his girlfriend with another man, he offers to buy her love back by having her turn him in for the reward money.