Projects matching: Richard Curtis

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Based on the charming trilogy of children's books by beloved multi award-winning writer/director Richard Curtis, THAT CHRISTMAS follows a series of entwined tales about family and friends, love and loneliness, and Santa Claus making a big mistake, not to mention an enormous number of turkeys! Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2024 - European premiere

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Yesterday, everyone knew The Beatles. Today, only Jack remembers their songs. He’s about to become a very big deal. Jack Malik is a struggling singer-songwriter in a tiny English seaside town whose dreams of fame are rapidly fading, despite the fierce devotion and support of his childhood best friend, Ellie. Then, after a freak bus accident during a mysterious global blackout, Jack wakes up to discover that The Beatles have never existed… and he finds himself with a very complicated problem indeed. Performing songs by the greatest band in history to a world that has never heard them, and with a little help from his steel-hearted American agent, Debra, Jack’s fame explodes. But as his star rises, he risks losing Ellie - the one person who always believed in him. With the door between his old life and his new closing, Jack will need to get back to where he once belonged and prove that all you need is love. A rock-n-roll comedy about music, dreams, friendship, and the long and winding road that leads to the love of your life. Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2019 - Closing Night Gala - World premiere

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Thirty-something London call centre operative Alex is obsessed with romantic comedies. Endlessly repeat-watching the likes of 'Sleepless in Seattle' and 'Notting Hill', he dreams of a relationship of his own, founded on the formulas of opposites attracting, and separation making the heart grow fonder. So, when he meets Lana on a mail-order bride website and finds they have absolutely nothing in common, he assumes he must have found the woman of his dreams. Surprisingly, Lana travels from Moldova to marry him, but Alex finds that the barriers between them - and the shadowy presence of a mysterious other man - may test his notions of how close he has come to his perfect Richard Curtis plot.

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Set in Brazil, three kids who make a discovery in a garbage dump soon find themselves running from the cops and trying to right a terrible wrong. Based on the novel by Andy Mulligan. Rome Film Festival 2014 - World premiere

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At the age of 21, Tim discovers he can travel in time and change what happens and has happened in his own life. His decision to make his world a better place by getting a girlfriend turns out not to be as easy as you might think.

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Albert Narracott, a young farmer, enlists for the British Army in WWI after he is parted from his beloved horse Joey who has been sold to the cavalry and deployed to France. Albert's epic journey takes him across Europe and eventually back to England. Adapted from the novel of the same title War Horse is a story of adventure, friendship, loss and war.

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Recently expelled from school, Carl has been sent by his jet-set mother to find some direction in life by visiting his godfather Quentin. However, Quentin is the boss of Radio Rock, a pirate radio station in the middle of the North Sea, populated by an eclectic crew of rock 'n' roll DJ's. They are led by The Count, big, brash, American, a god of the airwaves, and totally in love with the music. He's faithfully backed up by his co-broadcasters Dave, Simon, Midnight Mark, Wee Small Hours Bob, Thick Kevin, On The Hour John, and Angus 'The Nut' Nutsford. However, pirate stations have come to the attention of an establishment that's out for blood against the drug takers, lawbreakers and bottom-bashing fornications of a once great nation. In an era when the stuffy corridors of power stifle anything approaching youthful exuberance, pirate radio becomes Public Enemy Number 1.

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It is the summer of '66, and England is about to be consumed by World Cup Fever. For 12 year-old Bernie though, the biggest day of his life is looming: his Bar Mitzvah, and the day he becomes a man. Bernie's family, however, are increasingly distracted by the threat of losing their business and their errant older son's bad behaviour, so much so that the scale of Bernie’s Bar Mitzvah diminishes daily. Worst of all the Cup Final is scheduled to take place on the same day and when England makes it through the qualifying rounds, Bernie’s longed-for Bar Mitzvah looks set to be a complete disaster.

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In Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, we find Bridget (Renee Zellweger) where we left her - in the arms of gorgeous human rights lawyer Mark Darcy (Colin Firth). But what happens after the happy ending?

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Love Actually is not a new romantic comedy - it is ten new romantic comedies in one. Set in contemporary London in the two months before Christmas, it weaves together a series of touching and hilarious stories that end in not one, but really quite a lot of climaxes on Christmas Eve.

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The story centres on Bridget, a 30-something 'singleton', convinced that everyone is getting it right except for her. Her ambitions are few - she would like to lose weight and find true love - but seemingly unattainable. Her romantic life is in a state of perpetual crisis. While her friends Jude, Sharon and Tom provide her with hopeless advice, Bridget finds herself torn between two men, her charming, sexy, but dangerous boss Daniel Cleaver and Mark Darcy an old family friend, who seems at first to be aloof and dull, until his true self is revealed. Bridget's unsuccessful attempts to control her chaotic life and to develop inner poise are charted by her hilarious and sometimes poignant diary entries.

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William is the divorced owner of a quiet London bookshop. His life is very simple until, one day, the most famous film star in the World walks into his shop and kisses him. A new romantic comedy from the makers of "Four Weddings and a Funeral".