Category Archives: Comedy / Satire

TOWELHEAD (2007)

THE FILM FILM DIRECTOR: Alan Ball SCREENWRITER: Alan Ball FILM STARS: Summer Bishil, Aaron Eckhart, Toni Collette, Maria Bellom, Peter Macdissi, Matt Letscher COUNTRY: USA THIS BOOK AUTHOR: Alicia Erian TYPE: Novel PUBLISHER: Headline THIS EDITION PUBLISHED: 2008 COUNTRY: Great … Continue reading

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BIG (1988)

THE FILM FILM DIRECTOR: Penny Marshall SCREENWRITER: Gary Ross, Anne Spielberg FILM STARS: Tom Hanks, Elizabeth Perkins, Robert Loggia, John Heard, David Moscow, David Moscow, Jared Rushton, Jon Lovitz, Mercedes Ruehl, Harvey Miller COUNTRY: USA THIS BOOK AUTHOR: B.B. Hiller … Continue reading

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ST TRINIAN’S (2007)

THE FILM FILM DIRECTOR: Oliver Parker and Barnaby Thompson SCREENWRITER: Piers Ashworth and Nick Moorcroft FILM STARS: Talulah Riley, Rupert Everett, Jodie Whittaker, Gemma Arterton, Kathryn Drysdale, Juno Temple, Antonia Bernath, Amara Karan, Tamsin Egerton, Lily Cole, Paloma Faith, Holli … Continue reading

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TOM JONES (1963)

THE FILM FILM DIRECTOR: Tony Richardson SCREENWRITER: John Osborne FILM STARS: Albert Finney, Susannah York, Hugh Griffith, Edith Evans, Joan Greenwood, Diane Cilento, George Devine, David Tomlinson, Rosalind Atkinson, Wilfrid Lawson, Jack MacGowran, David Warner, Lynn Redgrave, Julian Glover COUNTRY: … Continue reading

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AGE OF CONSENT (1969)

THE FILM FILM DIRECTOR: Michael Powell SCREENWRITER: Peter Yeldham FILM STARS: James Mason, Helen Mirren, Jack MacGowran, Neva Carr Glyn, Andonia Katsaros, Michael Boddy, Harold Hopkins, Slim De Grey, Max Meldrum, Frank Thring, Tommy Hanlon Jr., Clarissa Kaye, Judith McGrath … Continue reading

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BEING THERE (1979)

THE FILM FILM DIRECTOR: Hal Ashby SCREENWRITER: Jerzy Kosinski, Robert C. Jones FILM STARS: Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas, Jack Warden, Richard Dysart, Richard Basehart, Ruth Attaway, David Clennon COUNTRY: USA THIS BOOK AUTHOR: Jerzy Kosinski TYPE: Novel PUBLISHER: … Continue reading

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MASH (1970)

THE FILM FILM DIRECTOR: Robert Altman SCREENWRITER: Richard Hooker (H. Richard Hornberger and W. C. Heinz) FILM STARS: Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Tom Skerritt, Sally Kellerman, Robert Duvall, Roger Bowen, René Auberjonois, Jo Ann Pflug , John Schuck, Carl Gottlieb, … Continue reading

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TRAVELS WITH MY AUNT (1972)

THE FILM FILM DIRECTOR: George Cukor SCREENWRITER: Jay Presson Allen, Hugh Wheeler FILM STARS: Maggie Smith, Alec McCowen, Louis Gossett Jr., Robert Stephens, Cindy Williams, Robert Flemyng, José Luis López Vázquez, Valerie White COUNTRY: USA THIS BOOK AUTHOR: Graham Greene … Continue reading

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BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S (1961)

THE FILM FILM DIRECTOR: Blake Edwards SCREENWRITER: George Axelrod FILM STARS: Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard, Patricia Neal, Buddy Ebsen, Martin Balsam, Mickey Rooney, John McGiver, Miss Beverly Hills, Orangey the cat. COUNTRY: USA THIS BOOK AUTHOR: Truman Capote TYPE: Novella … Continue reading

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PERCY (1971)

THE FILM FILM DIRECTOR: Ralph Thomas SCREENWRITER: Hugh Leonard, Michael Palin (key writer)(uncredited), Terence Feely (additional material) FILM STARS: Hywel Bennett, Denholm Elliott, Elke Sommer, Britt Ekland, Cyd Hayman, Janet Key, Tracey Crisp, Antonia Ellis, Tracy Reed, Patrick Mower, Pauline … Continue reading

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