Projects in genres: Comedy

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Three couples get together for a boozy restaurant dinner, but the mild-mannered Dennis is more interested in checking the National Lottery results.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival - Laugh Strand

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It's July 1985, and while Rock and Roll's great and good are strutting their stuff at Wembley, ex-Small Faces frontman Steve Marriott is propping up the bar of a dingy pub in Putney waiting to play to a small crowd of boozers. While he waits for the rest of his band, bitter and drunk, an encounter with a young revival Mod restores Steve's faith.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2015 - Sonic Strand - World premiere

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Rita is about to kick the bucket, but before she does she has one last job to do: drag her granddaughter out of the closet.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2015 - Thrill Strand - World premiere

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Kate is an out of work actress who is working in a central London shop. That is until she gets made redundant. Inspired by Bonnie Parker, Kate releases her inner bad girl, and with her shop assistant friends comes up with a plot to rob the shop, but where is her Clyde?

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Two lads meet when one goes looking for his real father. Throughout the course of the day, they realise they have more in common than they think.

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Charlie bottles up his problems into a cloud floating above his head. A tense birthday dinner with his wife forces him to confront his issues - with spectacular results.

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A head-on collision between fantasy and reality told from the twisted world view of Errol – a sexually repressed teenager born in the wreckage of a Lada crash.
Raised in isolation by his mother at a remote petrol station, Errol yearns to explore the real world. When his mother dies in an accident, Errol learns that the father he thought dead is alive, and sets off in the Lada to find him, leaving an unintended trail of destruction across the desolate backroads of 80s Britain. When he finally does reach him, Errol’s violent-tempered father tries recruiting him to a criminal underworld, forcing Errol to choose what kind of man he wants to be.
This thrilling odyssey burns a highly flammable cocktail of love, hate, sex and death setting Errol's moral compass spinning. Is there any hope that he will find salvation?

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A straight-talking female comedian falls out with her play safe boyfriend when she behaves 'inappropriately' during a tedious business dinner.

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A dark comedy, set in a fantasy London of darkness, dawns and dusks. It concerns two boys, dressed in rags and living in a little room that looks out over their ruined city, living on the edge of society, trying to survive. Despite the darkness and danger, the boys find solace and laughter in one another and bloom like weeds in the gutter. With nothing to lose, they fall through the clockwork of the city in search of escape, and perhaps even hope renewed.

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London, 1997; the British music industry is on a winning streak. Britpop bands Blur, Oasis, The Verve rule the airwaves and Cool Britannia is in full swing. 27-year-old A&R man Steven Stelfox is slashing and burning his way through the music business, a world where 'no one knows anything' and where careers are made and broken by chance and the fickle tastes of the general public. Fuelled by greed, ambition and inhuman quantities of drugs, Stelfox lives the dream, as he searches for his next hit record. But as the hits dry up and the industry begins to change, Stelfox takes the concept of "killer tunes" to a murderous new level in a desperate attempt to salvage his career.
Official selection Toronto International Film Festival 2015

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They say opposites attract. Milly (Toni Collette) is the woman who has everything: a successful career, a devoted husband, and two gorgeous kids. Her best friend is Jess (Drew Barrymore): Jess works in a community garden, lives in a boathouse with her boyfriend Jago, and desperately wants a baby. Friends since childhood, Jess and Milly can’t remember a time they didn’t share everything – secrets, clothes, even boyfriends; their differences are the glue that binds them together. That is until Milly is hit with life-changing news and needs Jess’s support more than ever. As Jess tries to balance her own life with being there for Milly it is only a matter of time before the pressure on their friendship becomes intolerable.
Toronto International Film Festival 2015 - World premiere

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Love, Revenge… and Haute Couture.
A glamorous woman returns to her small home town in rural Australia. With her sewing machine and haute couture style, she transforms the women and exacts sweet revenge on those who did her wrong.