Project Detail

The Martins

Synopsis

In this new film, starring Lee Evans and Kathy Burke, the Martyns, to outsiders, are the kind of people that you'd cross the road to avoid, but though they're the family from hell, once you get to know them you can't help but love them.

Robert Martyn (Lee Evans), an unemployed but optimistic loser, lives with his adoring and long-suffering wife Angie (Kathy Burke). They have two children - Katie, their heavily pregnant fourteen year-old daughter, and angelic Little Bob, their eight year old son who worships his Dad.

Everyday he wakes up thinking that things will turn out better for him and his family, and that one day he'll win one of the competitions he's always entering. All he wants to do is give his wife and kids everything they really deserve.

When Robert discovers that yet again he hasn't won the 'Dream Holiday' of a lifetime, a competition in his local newspaper, he finally snaps. He decides to take the law into his own hands; if he can't win a holiday, he'll just have to steal one!

Details

Year
2001
Type of project
Features
Running time
tbc
Format
35mm
Director
Tony Grounds
Producer
Peter Bennett-Jones, Paul Tucker, Ralph Kamp, Steve Christian
Editor
Robin Sales
Screenwriter
Tony Grounds
Director of Photography
David Johnson
Sound
Martin Trevis (Sound Recordist)
Composer
Richard Hartley
Principal cast
Lee Evans, Kathy Burke, Linda Bassett

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Production Status

Production Company

Tiger Aspect

5-7 Soho Square
London W1
UK

T 020 7434 0672

Sales Company

Icon Entertainment International

Charlotte Building
17 Gresse Street
London
W1T 1QL
UK

T +44 (0)20 7927 6900

www.iconmovies.net

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