Projects matching: Robbie Moffat

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Jimmy the village committee chairman is informed by letter that the village has been left $50 million by a rich American industrialist in order to improve the life of the villagers. Incensed by the size of the the legacy, the American industrialist’s son, Brad, hires an Edinburgh law firm to contest his father’s wishes. A young female solicitor, Heather, is dispatched to the Highland village to await further instructions. Posing as a tourist she befriends the villagers but is beguiled by Jimmy’s son Geordie. However, when Heather reveals that she is working for the American industrialist's son Brad, and that the village is in no position to legally challenge the his blocking of the pay out, she is shunned. Propelled to desperate measures to make amends, Heather informs Brad that the Loch Ness Monster 'Nessie' really exists and that she has seen it herself. Disbelieving, but seeing the tourist potential of the monster, Brad flies to Scotland to discover the truth for himself.

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A poignant, soul-stirring film based on a novel by Glenn Ward. Two strangers, drawn inexorably to the Scottish West coast, meet in Oban and begin a relationship. Connie intends to return to America, a place she once called home, and David has an important career to follow. Is the bond they’ve made strong enough to keep them together? Or are they to be ships that pass in the night?

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Amber and Nigel, seventeen-year-old daughter Liberty, and Amber’s father Michael, live in London. With Amber and Nigel both made redundant, they are no longer able to pay their mortgage. Facing repossession of their house, they decide to give everything up and go north to Scotland on a camping trip to contemplate their future. Liberty and Michael elect to stay behind until things take a turn for the worst, when Liberty sees her boyfriend with an other girl. She goes North with her Grandfather after all, only to discover her parents are living in a 'Green' New Age camp with ex hippies and oddball characters. Both parents get involved in the village anti wind farm campaign as a bid to fit in, whilst also placating the ex army New Age gang they encountered on the road. Liberty is unable to fit in with life at the camp in a tent. She ventures out to meet the locals in the village. Meanwhile grandfather has a heart attack and ends up in hospital. The family is broken and only Amber has the courage to put it together again. A film about loss and renewal.

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Dick and Harry Bridges are newly married and Dick has organised their honeymoon getaway as a do-it-yourself cruise on a West Midland backwater canal.

Harry, a girl of means, is crestfallen at the cheapness of Dick’s honeymoon plans but soon starts to like the carefree world of canal life when Dick employs Tom, a local pikey, to help steer them through the gates and locks.

Meanwhile, Dick has employed Sunshine an incompetent hit-man to kill his wife so he can collect on her life insurance, but the presence of Tom complicates Sunshine’s attempts to do away with her.

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On Paradise Island the Crab family struggles to survives as father turns into a recluse and refuses to go fishing.

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Jackie Shields, crook and villain, almost seventy, is at the end of this ‘working’ career. In and out of prison for most of his adult years, he is a poor father to his daughter Kitty, and violent short-tempered with his girlfriend Nora.

Kitty, mixed up and selfish, is a product of foster homes during her father’s times in prison. Despite her university education, she has not broken free of her father’s villainous underground world. She has become amoral, scheming, and duplicitous - the only way she knows how to survive.

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Dan and Katie’s plans for a romantic new year’s getaway to Paris are ruined in the months leading to their departure when their relationship implodes, leaving Dan heartbroken.

With the festive season fast approaching, they choose to proceed with the holiday as friends. But emotions run high amidst the nightmare scenario, which Dan sees as his last chance to win back the love of his life.

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Iris and Lilly Nelson, living in a house near an army camp, are the daughters of an ex-colonel-in-chief. Entertaining the camp's officers, their drinking buddies are Mitch, Bobby and Danny who are preparing for a tour in Afghanistan.

When Mitch proposes to Iris, the sisters are apprehensive that Mitch will discover and then report to the police that they have locked their brother Henry in a cell in the basement and that they have kept him there for eight years. Meanwhile, Henry having found a way to escape from his cell, stocks, then kills a soldier. This sparks off a murder hunt by inspector Arun.

When a second soldier is killed near the house, Iris and Lily try to cover up the murder and bury the body in the garden. When a third soldier is murdered, an armed guard is posted at the house to protect the sisters from the 'beast'.

Concerned for their soldier friends, but bound by family ties, the sisters continue to hide the existence of Henry from Mitch and the police despite the knowledge that Henry is beyond their control. Conquering Heroes is a modern day tale about the effects of war on the armed forces personnel.

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On a boating holiday, a honeymoon couple employ a local to help them navigate the West Midland canals. Dick and Harry Bridges are newly married and Dick has organised their honeymoon getaway as a do-it-yourself cruise on a West Midland backwater canal.

Harry, a girl of means, is crestfallen at the cheapness of Dick's honeymoon plans but soon starts to like the carefree world of canal life when Dick employs Tom, a local pikey, to help steer them through the gates and locks.

Meanwhile, Dick has employed Sunshine an incompetent hit-man to kill his wife so he can collect on her life insurance, but the presence of Tom complicates Sunshine's attempts to do away with her.

As the days stretch and the boat winds its way through the backwaters of Wolverhampton and Birmingham, Sunshine's attempts and Dick's frustration at his failure, make Tom and Harry suspect that something untoward is going on. A British comedy in the Ealing style, Fingers in the Water is set in the post-industrial landscape of the West Midlands on a boat that's going nowhere.

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Present day. Sarah McGuire, a travelling sales woman is off on a trip up north to sell her boss's latest range of lingerie stock. Unhappy in her current relationship with a car mechanic, she sets off with a mind to change her life for the better. She is good at her job but is unfulfilled. To alleviate her daily boredom she runs to orchestral music. Running is her one real pleasure in life.

A chance meeting in a pub while drunk furnishes her with a list of ten beautiful places to go running in Britain. Initially, the places are on route between her sales assignments, but finally Sarah has to make the decision to get off the beaten track and go on the run.

No longer in conflict with her true self and her job, Sarah follows the list and one by one ticks off the places to run until she finds herself in the very north of Scotland wondering why she is there at all.

Set across England, Wales and Scotland, Back Burner is a road movie that takes the lead character from London to far north.

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The King sends his three best knights from the battlefield on a quest to find a stone that would save their lands. The knights travel under ground, descending into darkness. Without their knowledge their souls are separated from their bodies. They search for the legend, but their ignorance doesn’t last long, when the souls of all who went before them are looking for a body of their own so they can get out of the tunnels.

The knights are now trapped themselves, their bodies slowly weakening as they become possessed. Regardless of their predicament they press on and come to a ritual chamber where they find the stone and learn that the creators of the tunnels are imprisoned in the water contained in the chamber.

They release one of the creators' beast who by instinct wants to recover the stone - and it kills one of the knights. Putting their grief and anger aside, the two knights, using the stone, trick the beast and imprison him.

Finding their way back to the entrance, another knight has followed them down into the tunnels to deliver bad news about life on the surface. There is no escape now.

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English student falls in love with Eastern European girl who turns him inside out when she dates two older men for money.

Medical student James Silverdale, from Stafford is in London to study medicine. He is a loner but strikes up a relationship with a beautiful educated girl from the Czech Republic. He has been with her for some months, so he can’t quite believe his luck. She seems smitten with him until she meets a wealthy gambler and entrepreneur David, who invites her to go out with him to the casino. She accepts David’s invitation and happily wins £8,000 at the casino. David also showers her with gifts so that she gets used to a new exciting lifestyle based on money and status. She keeps this from James who discovers the expensive dresses and things David has brought her. Meanwhile she sleeps with David but at the same time tries to keep her relationship going with James, who she really loves.

James Becomes increasingly aware that he can’t provide for her. Kristabel soon gets bored with David and she moves on to a famous music producer, Micky who also frequents the casino. David gets jealous and immediately informs James, who is understandably angry.

During all this, James’ mother dies, so Kristabel puts off breaking up with him. She keeps going out with Micky who is determined to take her to the south of France on a business junket to the music festival in his private jet. But she conspires with James so that he can come to France at the same time - they hatch a plan in which James dresses up a woman to take the identity of their close friend Renatta.

James takes the train down to the south of France, Posing as a woman manages to stay along side Kristabel and Micky. It is not long before he is seized with jealousy and in a fit of rage murders Kristabel. Making his way back to England he discovers that he has committed the perfect crime because the police arrest Renatta instead of him.