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When the stress of running a large business in an increasingly competitive world became too much to bear, Jeff Baker's wife and associates conspire to have him sectioned under the Mental Health Act 1983. Now, six months later, he is entitled to an informal Mental Health Review Tribunal to determine his fitness to return to society. Initially, the panel recommend a conditional discharge that amounts to little more than granting him 'Day Release', under the foolish assumption that nothing could go wrong in one day. But the intervening months have wreaked havoc on both his private and business life, and in his attempt to rebuild them, he is told that his parents are dead, his kids have flown the nest to join obscure cults, his wife has run off with his business partner whose embezzling tendencies have resulted in the total collapse of their company which is now being controlled by their former accountant, under his deceptive guise as The Official Receiver. As Jeff accumulates the evidence that is to prove that both he and his wife have been misled, manipulated, cheated and lied to, he acquires a string of witnesses who all, without exception, suffer from one form of phobia or another. In effect, he comes to realise what the medical profession has known all along, that everyone in the world is neurotic, it's just that some of these neuroses, such as an obsession with money, have become generally approved of by society.

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It is the turn of the century in a sleepy North country market town. Two young boys Arthur and Wilfred, dream of adventure - of going to war to fight for King and Country. Though still at school and under age for Kitchener's army, this does not stop them enlisting. As they board the troop train for the war front in their newly pressed army uniforms all family feuds are forgotten. Yet nothing could have prepared them for the hell that waited in the trenches, in the mud, on the barbed wire, in the squalor of shattered limbs that once were brave men. On recuperative leave home, Arthur falls deeply in love with Amy his girlfriend - and makes every hour count. However, back at the front, Arthur and Will are no longer boys but men grown old beyond their time - scarred by the slaughter of life. Into this hopelessness comes brief news of happiness - Arthur is to be a father. Now the real battle is on to stay alive for at last there is hope. But sadly fate has a different course to run, for Arthur is riddled with machine gun fire while attempting to save the life of a wounded soldier. For Will this is a dreadful end to a wonderful friendship - for the generals just another statistic of the Great World War. But life must go on...and Will on returning home sees the future in the eyes of Arthur's child - the hopes, the dreams of a new generation.

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A modern day fairy tale set in the North East coastal town of Saltburn, where time creeps on unaware of change. When misfit Douglas is landed with a sack of flour dressed in a babygro he suddenly gains the respect and admiration he dreams of. In this quirky tale of differing perceptions, Douglas proudly enters fatherhood, but isn't it just a sack of flour?

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Michael was born in his father's farmhouse, works on his father's farm and lives in a cottage just one field away, which he bought from his father when he got married. It is November 1996, and Michael is now 47. Jim, his father, has been running the farm for 50 years.

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Sophie and Nick are surprised to learn that their recently deceased pet was no ordinary cat - Fred was a world-famous rock star! However, the pleasures and pressures of the high life proved too much for the star who fell ill with cat flu never to recover. But just how many lives does Fred have left...? This musical celebration featuring original songs is a treat for cat fans of all ages.

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Hypnotic, almost ritualistic, portrait of Eric, a 17 year old boy trying to keep control over his own intense emotions - especially his feelings for Jason, an 18 year old boy who barely knows him. One afternoon he succumbs and climbs through Jason's window, saying to his empty room what he has until now been unable even to speak out loud. It is here, illicit and alone, in Jason's bedroom, that he finally cones to terms with his own obsession.

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Get Real is the story of Steven Carter, an ordinary teenager from Basingstoke, Middle England, and his friends. Like most teenagers, they're desperate to fall in love: Steven's neighbour Linda with her driving instructor, his school friend Mark with Wendy, Wendy with Head Boy and all round dreamboat John, John's mate Kevin with Wendy's friend Jessica. But like most teenagers, they are pretty hopeless at it. Steven is in love too, but he knows it is impossible. It's just a dream. It'll never be real. Except it is. But there's a catch: Steven's lover won't acknowledge him in public. Get Real is the comic tale of what happens when the dream becomes an unexpected reality, and forces Steven to choose between being himself and being in love.

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A very contemporary urban comedy thriller about a group of unemployed friends who never do much more than sweat the small stuff, arguing the merits of chocolate cake versus strawberry gateau and the correct name for a pork pie with an egg in the middle. The world barely exists outside the house they share. They have no money, just an empty fridge with labelled shelves. Then one night they are tempted by the golden opportunity to share £200,000 in exchange for a little hard graft and a touch of nerve, in a race against the clock. All they have to do is shut up for long enough to spring the cash from a safe that is fast sinking to a watery grave. What's more, they have to do it and get out before the hard men who own it arrive to claim their prize or wreak havoc if denied.

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It's a Saturday night in London, the hippest city on earth. Quant and Hawk, the young couple at the centre of More is Less, both agree on one thing - they want to go out. The only trouble is, that's all they agree on. Where to go? What to do? There's just so many choices, so many possible great-night-outs. A seemingly endless world of theatres, movies, gigs, raves and parties await them both, but they're just unable to pick.

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Even in 1850, when she was still traditionally 'alive', the beautiful Lilith Silver was a tough, dynamic headstrong lady. During a flintlock pistol duel, fought for her honour by her handsome lover Jack Ryder and the sinister scarred Sir Sethane Blake, Lilith produced a pistol of her own and took a pot shot at Blake. Yet despite inflicting a wound that would have killed a mere mortal, Blake just smiled. Lilith herself was then brutally gunned down. Not allowing his prize to die, Sethane Blake bestowed the dark gift of the vampire to Lilith. Now eternity is her playground! We pick up the story in the present day. Lilith is comfortable in the '90s - she is the most free spirited and outrageous woman you'll ever meet - with a coffin full of weapons in her bedroom! Lilith is keen to educate us about what a vampire really is and we join her in her search for lust, love and new blood.

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Nick Leeson was an ordinary guy. Young, underprivileged, smarter than average. He just wanted to be rich and famous. In 1995, he succeeded beyond his wildest dreams, making sensational headlines around the world and rocking the ancient foundations of the City of London. Posted to the Singapore office of Barings, Leeson's desperate attempts to cover up his out-of-control trading losses managed to destroy a banking institution which had flourished for 300 years. Single-handedly, the Rogue Trader caused one of the greatest financial disasters in history.

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The Manhattan Brothers wrote and sang 'Township Jazz' music during 1940s and 50s in South Africa. With over 150 hits, they sold millions of records, but their record company, Gallo Records, paid them using petty cash vouchers and hardly anything in royalties. Exiled from South Africa for almost thirty years, Joe Mogotsi now returns to find out if, in the 'new' South Africa, past injustices will be redressed.