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LARGER THAN LIFE Director: Linda Fiorentino
Jack Corcoran is about to hit it big time, Howard Franklin Genre: Comedy
until his life takes a major detour. A tel- Writer: Year of
egram informs him that his long-deceased Roy Blount Jnr, Production: 1996
father has, in fact, only recently died and Pen Densham,
that Jack is the sole heir to his posses- Garry Williams
sions. Jack goes to claim his inheritance, Cast:
only to discover that his deadbeat dad Bill Murray
was a circus clown and that his inherit- Janeane Garofalo
ance is an eight thousand-pound elephant Matthew
named Vera. McConaughey

A MAN OF NO Director: Genre:
IMPORTANCE Suri Krishnamma Comedy, Drama
Albert Finney is Alfie Byrne, a fifty Writer: Year of
Barry Devlin
Production: 1994
something bus conductor with a glint of Cast:
the poet. He’s been toying with the idea Albert Finney
of staging Oscar Wilde’s Salome when Brenda Fricker
Adele climbs aboard his bus, his ideal Michael Gambon
vision of the temptress. Rufus Sewell
Tara Fitzgerald

THE MAN WHO Director: Cast:
SUED GOD Mark Joffe Billy Connolly
Writer:
Judy Davis
Steve Myers used to be a lawyer. Quite John Clarke, Colin Friels
a good lawyer, actually, just not a very Patrick McCarville, Wendy Hughes
happy one. So he gave it all up to become John Collee, Genre: Comedy
a fisherman - living the simple life with Don Watson Year of
only his long-suffering mongrel dog, Production: 2001
Arthur, for company. When a lightning
strike destroys his boat and he is denied
insurance as the damage was an ‘act of
god’, he goes back to the Bar to sue God.

THE MARTINS Director: Genre: Comedy
The Martins are the family from Hell. Tony Grounds Year of
Robert Martin is an unemployed dreamer Writer: Production: 2000
and spends his life hoping to win competi- Tony Grounds
tions in order to give his wife and children Cast:
all the things they deserve. One day, when Lee Evans
Robert discovers that he has not won yet Kathy Burke
another dream family holiday of a lifetime Linda Bassett
he decides to take matters into his own Terri Dumon
hands and steal one. Eric Byrne

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