Projects in genres: Comedy

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In 1983 Don Robson (George Innes) started a boys football team called Athletico Greenwich. Twenty years later six of the lads are still playing for the team, but things have got so much more complicated.   Cass (Dougray Scott), the team's top scorer on and off the pitch, isn't sure he's ready for fatherhood with Kate (Emilia Fox), the love of his life. Adam (Shaun Parkes) still hasn't told the rest of the team he's gay. Colin (Bruce Mackinnon) is desperate to have a threesome even though he's just started going out with the lovely Vicky (Billie Piper). Dylan (Jimi Mistry) is in love with the woman his father is about to marry. Billy (Roger Morlidge) is trying to save his marriage. Johnny (Danny Nussbaum) is not ready to accept the fact that his father, who started the team all those years ago, is dying.   This is a funny, life-affirming and moving tale of people trying to live their complicated adult lives in the cosmopolitan and exciting city that is 21st century London, a film about how life is messy and funny, and the realisation that the only thing that makes it worth living is real, undying, unconditional friendship.

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A young tooth fairy (11) called Tooth gives away a guzillion dollars and bankrupts Christmas and all of Fairytopia. She enlists the help of Tom and Tolly Wallit (6) to retrieve the money. However, the three find that money is not the answer when they meet Mrs Claus (Santa's wife) and convince her to return to Fairytopia, bringing magic back with her.

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In this dark surreal drama, Ray King, self-styled Top Dog greyhound trainer, thinks he's onto a winner. But on the night of the 'Grand Final', paranoia sets in and a bloody metamorphosis tries to take hold of him. Can his humanity survive losing the race.

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Alim thinks he's living with the ghost of Cary Grant - and with Cary's help Alim manages to keep his wonderful boyfriend and carefree London lifestyle hidden from his mother Nuru who lives oceans away in Toronto. But things get messy when Nuru arrives to visit - with the intention of persuading Alim to come 'home' and marry - and Alim has to choose between his relationships with his mother, his boyfriend and his imaginary friend.

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A light-hearted every day tale of sadomasochistic bondage. In a traditional old-school boxing gym, thick with sweat and testosterone, a strange menage a trois unfolds between a dominatrix, an unwitting boxer and a punch bag.

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When a simple disagreement unleashes the pent-up frustrations of Steve and Kate's relationship, things quickly escalate into the mother of all rows. Unhappy Loving Couple is a sharp dialogue comedy about love, lifestyles and not knowing what you've got until you've nearly lost it.

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Wimbledon tells the story of Peter (Paul Bettany), a British man struggling at an embarrassingly low position on the tennis ranking ladder. He is given a wild card for Wimbledon which is to be his final bow but when he falls in love with a young hot shot American tennis star, Lizzie (Kirsten Dunst) his on court prowess, skills - and a little luck - catapult him from round to round bringing him closer to his dream of winning the men's singles title.

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A guy walks into a bar and takes on a challenge to win a pot of money. Unfortunately for him, he doesn't listen properly to the rules of the challenge, with shocking results. The story is told in funky rap-style dialogue.

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You are a monkey. That's why you pick your nose, that's why you eat fruit and that's why you have those funny dreams about falling out of things.

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Sometimes you wake up with the wrong person. Black Coffee, a brilliantly improvised Scottish black comedy, deals with the hangover from the night before. John Dick wakes up, content with being unemployed. Lynn, an insecure rich bitch, finds herself falling in love with John, the 'journalist for the local paper'. Meanwhile, after years of marriage, Pat has had enough of Eve's too many late nights, leaving their teenage son, Ben, with the biggest hangover of all.

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Comedy set in the world of bowls. Try as he might, the roguishly handsome Cliff Starkey, just can't keep out of trouble. In his sleepy hometown on the English coast, nothing much inspires him, apart from bowls. Cliff has always preferred to play by his own rules much to the disapproval of the regimented, elderly fraternity. Before long, the bad boy of bowls is turning the sedate and very English pastime upside down with hysterical results.

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Set in the 1930s, the world of the Bright Young Things is one of nightclubs, dancing, jazz and speed. Their lives revolve around an endless series of parties and pleasure seeking: motorcars, jazz bands, gossip journalism, drugs, gramophones - Inevitably, however, the frantic pace of living takes its toll and one by one they begin to crash and burn in the search for newer and faster sensations.