Projects matching: John Hay

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Stephen Fry’s personal journey and essay tells the amazing story of how a group of Amsterdam’s artists, musicians and members of the LGBTQ+ community, pulled off one of the most daring and far-reaching acts of sabotage in the history of the Dutch resistance. Willem, a gay artist, and Frieda, a Lesbian cellist, forged identity papers for Jews without a “J” on them but when the Nazis began to check the false paperwork against real files they came up with a daring plan to blow up the Central Records Office but without harming anyone. Official Selection BFI Flare London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival 2023 - World premiere

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The story of the tribulations behind best-selling children's novelist Roald Dahl's marriage to Academy Award winning actress Patricia Neal. The somewhat unlikely pair - an in-demand Hollywood actress and a burgeoning children's author - find their relationship put to the test, and ultimately strengthened, by tragic events. Set between New York, England and Los Angeles in the early 60s, it tells the tale of Dahl's struggles while writing some of his most famous works and Neal's return to acting.

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In a quiet country farmhouse, Britain's vampires gather for their once-every-fifty-years meeting. Others will be joining them too: unwitting Essex boy Sebastian Crockett, whose promise of a night of passion with ravishing cougar Vanessa quickly turns into a fight for survival after she decides to introduce him to some of her friends - the coven of hungry vampires. As if Sebastian's night couldn't get any worse, a heavily armed band of mercenary vampire hunters led by the steadfast Captain Bingham, crashes the party - and much like the vampires, they're out for blood. It's going to be a night to remember.

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A redemptive coming-of-age story that follows a neglected and wayward teen, Jamie, whose incredible singing voice offers her an escape to a better life, until she finds her loyalties torn between her inspiring, unconventional care worker and her possessive and volatile best friend. Toronto International Film Festival 2015 - World premiere

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One small random act of malice forces an ordinary man off the safe road and on to a dark journey he'll never forget.

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Heck (Matthew Goode) and Rachel (Piper Perabo) are a happy young couple about to embark on life together. But at the church, Rachel catches the eye of an unexpected guest. In that moment, she realises that maybe Heck isn’t everything she’s ever wanted. Of course, they will never know for sure unless they give it a shot. What follows is the romantic and hilarious journey familiar to anyone who’s ever been lucky (or unlucky) enough to be under love’s spell.

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Alice Holbrock is happily married to Sam. It’s Valentine’s Eve and as part of a drunken bet with her sister, Alice sends Sam an anonymous Valentine’s card to see if he hides it. Unfortunately for Sam, he conceals it far too well, which infuriates Alice. Egged on by her cynical sister Felicity and with the unknowing help of Archie, Sam’s best friend, what starts off as a silly prank escalates to phone sex, a clandestine meeting and ultimately the revelation that her husband already has a mistress. Alice has to decide whether to fight for her marriage or leave him. She decides to fight – but where will it all end? How far would you go to test your man? How far would you go to keep him?

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When a wedding comes to a small town in the Indian countryside, it's a good opportunity for Mrs Bakshi to find eligible mates for her four daughters, but the smart and headstrong Lalita is determined to marry for love. Sparks fly when she meets the handsome American Will Darcy, but is it love or hate?   Gurinder Chadha directs this Bollywood-style re-telling of Jane Austen's classic tale of marriage and manners, transplanted to modern-day India, England and America, and complete with lavish musical spectacle.

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Britain's finest hour becomes Hollywood's greatest story in this comic retelling of one of Britain's most historic moments - as seen through the eyes of Hollywood.   American movie moguls are producing a movie about World War II. Following the first day of shooting, an ambitious executive discovers that their 'lead' is an old guy with a cigar so they decide to replace him with a far more sellable leading man: the star of their most recent film - the tactfully entitled PUMP!

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Bend It Like Beckham is a British 'Teen-Comedy' about bending the rules to get what you want. If you're 18, love Beckham and can bend a ball like him the world's your oyster, right? Wrong. If you're Jess - 18, Indian and a girl - forget it. Do you think your marriage-obsessed folks will let you play a Man's game? If you're Jules - 18, English and a girl - what will it take to convince your mother that just because you play footie with girls doesn't mean you're a lesbian? Both girls dream of playing professionally - that means going to the States where the girls get paid, get sponsorship and get proper respect. Jess and Jules are on their way with help from their coach, Joe, until they both fall in love with him.

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Uncared for by the community, Rick, recently mad, is looking for somewhere warm to commit suicide. Instead he finds George, a downtrodden doormat of a man, recently separated. In turn they stumble upon the smouldering, embittered, man-mountain that is Joe, recently bereaved. One game of pool and several drinks later these three disparate men are thrown together on a journey no-one wants to take, to a destination no-one believes exists, chased by a man no-one should meet - Then there's the Hippies, George's ex-wife, a robbery, drugs, amputation, muggings, Brownies, the Police, explosions and this really, really gorgeous girl.

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French/German border - late 1944. The forests of the Ardennes. A platoon of battle-weary German soldiers, forced into confusion and retreat by advancing Allied forces, take refuge in an isolated Siegfried Line bunker. As night falls and a rainstorm begins to blow, the exhausted soldiers huddle in the concrete shelter - trapped by the advancing GI's. A brief and violent assault upon the Bunker from the surrounding Americans is followed by a period of tense calm and, in the cold darkness of the bunker, the wise older soldier, MIRUS, mischievously relates to the others a story he'd heard from locals in the nearby village. The ancient surrounding forest, he reveals, is haunted; witches were burned here in the middle ages and, during the Black Death, the infected victims had been slaughtered and buried here, in an attempt to cleanse the village. At the same time, the newcomers also learn of adjoining tunnels, which connect the bunker to an abandoned underground munitions storage complex which might well be the only way out. An eerie noir thriller in the classic tradition of Val Lewton's 'psychological horror' films of the 1940's, relying on character, mood and inference, rather than the contemporary trend of graphic violence - a chilling metaphorical tale which combines the best elements of Sam Peckinpah's Cross of Iron and Robert Wise's The Haunting.