Projects matching: Just

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DEAN (12) and the rest of his family have adjusted to a life without a father; this is all about to change as EDWARD (45) is returning home after serving a 7 year prison sentence. Everyone seems to be eagerly awaiting his return except Dean is not so willing to accept him back into his life so easily. Edward must try to gain his sons trust and love and on top of this find his new place in the family unit. Edward tries his hardest to work things out but there are difficulties on the way and he is left with the decision between devoting his time to his family or to proving his innocence.

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Acclaimed actor David Morrissey is the complex and compelling character Detective Inspector Tom Thorne in this nail-biting crime thriller adapted from the best-selling novel by Mark Billingham.   Featuring an all-star cast including Sandra Oh, Aidan Gillen and Eddie Marsan, Scaredy Cat is a startling new take on the detective story, destined to thrill and chill audiences in equal measure. Heading up a new team whose aim is to crack the cases that leave other forces stumped, Thorne finds himself on the hunt for not one, but two serial killers, who seem to be working together, yet killing separately.

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Set in London. Justin's Genes tells the story of Duncan Beckford, a London-born geneticist. Duncan's parents came to Britain from Trinidad in the 1960's. They worked hard to provide their two sons Duncan and Justin with a proper British Eduction to give them a better life. However Duncan's brother Justin is car jacked and burnt alive by four white youths. This sets him off on a quest to safeguard his unborn child's mortality. As a geneticist he resorts to science and his knowledge of genetics to protect his child. A very gritty, edgy film depicting unpalatable social reality.

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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is based on the John le Carre Cold War spy novel. Set in the 1970s George Smiley, a recently retired MI6 agent, is doing his best to adjust to a life outside the secret service. However, when a disgraced agent reappears with information concerning a mole at the heart of the Circus, Smiley is drawn back into the murky field of espionage.

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An adaptation of Nigel Slater’s best selling memoir, Toast is the ultimate nostalgia trip through everything edible in 1960’s Britain.    Nigel’s Mother was always a poor cook but her chronic asthma and addiction to all things canned isn’t helping.  Nigel on the other hand laps up cookbooks like they are porn.   As his mother’s illness worsens so do Nigel’s relations with his father.  Just before Xmas, Nigel’s mother dies, leaving Nigel and his father heartbroken, until a new cleaner, Mrs Potter, arrives on the scene.   Mrs Potter’s figure, charms and lemon meringue pies quickly bewitch Nigel’s father and much to Nigel’s horror, the three soon embark on a move to the country. The one silver lining in the cloud of a new school being Domestic Science class, through which Nigel can finally shine and cooking soon becomes the key weapon in the battle for Dad’s affections.     When Nigel lands a job in the kitchen of his local pub his eyes are opened to a world of opportunity, both culinary and sexually.  When his father dies, Nigel’s mind is set as he packs a bag for London and arrives at the door of The Savoy Hotel.

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WELCOME TO THE WORLDS is the remarkable story of the 40th Irish Dancing World Championships, held in March 2010 in Glasgow. Three thousand dancers, their families and teachers from around the globe descend upon Glasgow for one drama filled week. Clad in wigs, make up, fake tan, diamantes and dresses costing thousands of pounds to compete for the coveted world titles. A year of incredibly hard work for just a few tense minutes on stage. This feature length documentary was given access for the very first time to the little known world of competitive Irish Dancing. With financial backing from BBC Scotland, BBC and Scottish Screen award-winning filmmaker Sue Bourne went behind the normally closed doors of Irish Dancing and found a remarkable world. Wonderful characters of all ages from Ireland, Holland, Britain, America and Russia. Discover a world of dedication, hard work, obsession, passion. Success and failure. And astonishing talents pushed to their limits in the quest for perfection.

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London: The not too distant future. Newgen Industries, a leading pharmaceutical company, is trying to placate a media uproar. Its new legal performance enhancer, RAK-295, has met with spectacular failure during testing, causing severe physical and allergic reactions in all 30,000 of its test subjects, except one - Angela Mills. Angela, herself, is pregnant and is making arrangements of her own to leave a city full of woe and bad memories. With Angela being the only person not to report any type of reaction to the testing, Dr. Brooke (head of Newgen) understands that Angela may hold the key to solving this disaster and enlists Cole, the head of security, to find her and bring her in for examination. But Cole, a hardened ex-mercenary wants out from committing crimes to solve Newgen's problems, and has just handed in his resignation to Peter White, the CEO. His timing couldn’t be worse. A violent outbreak of a test subject at Newgen's labs reveals that the drug has far more catastrophic consequences than anyone could have imagined, claiming life of Brooke and White in the process. And it's spreading. During the struggle Cole is also bitten, his fate sealed. Or is it?

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It's Jamie's emotional journey through the criminal justice system. A teenager with aggression, attitude and arrogance, makes him the prime suspect. In an enthralling encounter, Jamie finds him self at the scene of a murder, in a frenzy the knife is shoved in his hand making him guilty of course? Can Rosie trust Jamie until the end of the case, or will she collapse under the immense pressure? Will the media realize he was in the wrong place at the wrong time? And will Dan revive his friendship with his best friend? One thing stops any of this becoming apparent, Jamie meets the killer whose destined to end his life

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A surreal comedy docu-drama looking at the life and work of the Spanish painter and film-maker Salvador Dali. Set in a boxing gym, it tells in a theatrical way, how his odd family (including his dead brother) helped shape the young man into becoming arguably the twentieth century's greatest painter.

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Simon Pegg and Nick Frost (Hot Fuzz) reunite for the comedy adventure Paul as two sci-fi geeks whose pilgrimage takes them to America's UFO heartland. While there, they accidentally meet an alien who brings them on an insane road trip that alters their universe forever. For the past 60 years, an alien named Paul has been hanging out at a top secret military base. For reasons unknown, the space traveling smart ass decides to escape the compound and hop on the first vehicle out of town, a rented RV containing Earthlings Graeme Willy and Clive Collings. Chased by federal agents and the fanatical father of a young woman that they accidentally kidnap, Graeme and Clive hatch a fumbling escape plan to return Paul to his mother ship. And as two nerds struggle to help, one little green man might just take his fellow outcasts from misfits to intergalactic heroes.

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An autistic man and woman's friendship becomes tested when an impulsive 15 year old girl comes between them.  

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The King's Speech stars Colin Firth as King George VI, the present Queen's father, and tells the story of the King's relationship with his unorthodox Australian speech therapist Lionel Logue.   Chance makes George the King just as radio is taking off as a mass medium. As King he must speak not only to the nation but to the people of the British Empire, across the world, as war looms. Struggling from childhood with a nervous stammer, George, known to his family as Bertie, the second son of King George V never expects to be King.  But his older brother Edward abdicates the throne to marry the American Wallis Simpson.  George VI's wife, Queen Elizabeth - the future Queen Mother - is tireless in her belief in him. Having tried all the traditional doctors, they put their faith in the Australian outsider, Logue.   The film movingly and humorously reveals the relationship of Royal and colonial commoner as they face the abdication crisis then the greatest test of all - the approach of the Second World War. The King must inspire the nation and the Empire on the radio. But will he be able to speak?  Will his friendship with Logue save him?