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Ian La Frenais is a Scriptwriter, Producer and Additional Dialogue British born on 7 january 1937
Ian La Frenais, OBE, (born 7 January 1936), is an English writer best known for his creative partnership with Dick Clement. They are most famous for television series including The Likely Lads, Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?, Porridge, Lovejoy and Auf Wiedersehen, Pet.
(2006)
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(1983)
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(2007)
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Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 7 january 1937 (87 years)
Awards Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire
Birth 7 january 1937 (87 years)
Awards Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire
Ian La Frenais, OBE, (born 7 January 1936), is an English writer best known for his creative partnership with Dick Clement. They are most famous for television series including The Likely Lads, Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?, Porridge, Lovejoy and Auf Wiedersehen, Pet.
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Bunyan and Babe (2017)
Directed by Jim Rygiel
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure, Animation
Actors John Goodman, Eddie Griffin, Kelsey Grammer, Jeff Foxworthy, Mark Hamill, Dawnn Lewis
Rating48%
12 year-old Travis Barclay and his little sister Whitney are sent begrudgingly on a summer trip to visit their grandparents’ farm in Delbert County. A greedy land developer, Norm Blandsford, has been buying up the little country town, running the hard working residents off their land. After Travis has a run-in with one of Blandsford's men, he is chased into the forest where he stumbles upon a magic portal to the hidden world where Paul Bunyan lives. Paul has been in self-imposed exile for 100 years, ever since the advent of machines made his role in society obsolete and left him feeling of little value to the new world. Paul, reluctantly, escorts Travis back to the farm. But upon returning,Paul witnesses Blandsford’s sinister plan. Suddenly filled by a long-forgotten sense of purpose, Bunyan and Babe, the blue ox, get wrapped up in a brand new adventure and together with the help of their new friends, Travis and Whitney, they save the town. They learn firsthand that you don't have to be big to accomplish big things.
Killing Bono (2011)
, 1h54Directed by Nick Hamm
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about music and musicians
Actors Ben Barnes, Robert Sheehan, Pete Postlethwaite, Krysten Ritter, Luke Treadaway, Charlie Cox
Rating62%
À Dublin, Neil McCormick et son jeune frère Ivan montent le groupe de rock Shook Up, avec l'ambition de devenir le plus grand groupe de rock du monde. Au même moment, Paul Hewson, leur camarade de classe, chante dans son propre groupe qui vient lui aussi de se former. Neil, persuadé que le sien est bien meilleur, ne se doute pas encore que le groupe qui le concurrence va bientôt sortir de l'ombre sous le nom de U2, et que Paul Hewson deviendra une star planétaire sous celui de Bono.
The Bank Job (2008)
, 1h51Directed by Roger Donaldson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Documentary, Crime
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Jason Statham, Saffron Burrows, Richard Lintern, Stephen Campbel Moore, James Faulkner, Daniel Mays
Rating71%
Petty-criminal-gone-straight, Terry Leather (Jason Statham), owns a struggling car-sales garage. His friend, the photographer Kevin Swain's (Stephen Campbell Moore) ex-girlfriend, a former model named Martine Love (Saffron Burrows) offers Terry a chance to earn enough money to never worry about debt again: a bank robbery in Baker Street, London. Terry gathers his petty-criminal friends, including Kevin, a sometime pornographic actor Dave Shilling (Daniel Mays), a mechanic named Bambas (Alki David), and an elegant con-man "Major" Guy Singer (James Faulkner). While scouting the branch of Lloyds Bank, Terry and Martine inspect the vault while Kevin and Dave case the exterior. The Soho gangster Lew Vogel (David Suchet) happens upon Kevin and Dave, the latter of whom has made some films for Vogel.
Across the Universe (2007)
, 2h13Directed by Julie Taymor
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Adventure, Musical, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about music and musicians, Films about drugs, Musical films, Political films
Actors Jim Sturgess, Evan Rachel Wood, Joe Anderson, Dana Fuchs, Martin Luther McCoy, Teresa Victoria "T.V." Carpio
Rating72%
In 1966 Jude, a young shipyard worker from Liverpool, enlists in the Merchant Navy and jumps ship in New Jersey hoping to find his American G.I. father, whom he has never met ("Girl", "Hold Me Tight", "All My Loving"). Meanwhile, Lucy Carrigan worries about her boyfriend Daniel who is headed for service in the Vietnam War, while in Dayton, Ohio, Prudence pines for a fellow female cheerleader ("I Want to Hold Your Hand"). Jude meets his father, who is a janitor at Princeton University, and befriends Lucy's brother, the privileged and rebellious student Max ("With a Little Help from My Friends"). Lucy receives a letter from Daniel ("It Won't Be Long"), but when Max brings Jude home with him for Thanksgiving Jude becomes attracted to Lucy ("I've Just Seen a Face").
Flushed Away (2006)
, 1h25Directed by Sam Fell, David Bowers
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Adventure, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Film d'animation mettant en scène un animal, Buddy films, Children's films
Actors Hugh Jackman, Kate Winslet, Ian McKellen, Jean Reno, Michael Richards, Andy Serkis
Roles Histoire
Rating65%
Roddy St. James (Hugh Jackman) is a decidedly upper crust pet rat who makes his home in a posh Kensington flat. While his owners are away on holiday Roddy plays around the house. A common sewer rat named Sid (Shane Richie) comes spewing out of the sink and decides to stay, especially as England are playing against Germany in the World Cup final. Roddy schemes to get rid of Sid by luring him into the "jacuzzi", which is actually the toilet. Sid isn't fooled at all and instead pushes Roddy in and flushes him away into the sewer. There, Roddy discovers a city resembling London made out of various bits of junk, and meets Rita Malone (Kate Winslet), an enterprising scavenger rat who works the drains in her faithful boat, the Jammy Dodger. Rita does not like Roddy initially, but ends up taking him along, while her arch enemy The Toad (Ian McKellen) sends his rat henchmen, Spike (Andy Serkis) and Whitey (Bill Nighy), after her because she had stolen back her father's prized ruby a long time ago. The Toad despises all rodents to the point of hateful obsession. He plans to have them frozen with liquid nitrogen inside an icemaker. The pair escape, and Rita takes a unique electrical cable that, unknown to everyone but the Toad, is required to control the floodgates.
Goal! (2005)
, 1h58Directed by Danny Cannon
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Sports films, Association football films
Actors Kuno Becker, Alessandro Nivola, Tony Plana, Marcel Iureș, Stephen Dillane, Gary Lewis
Rating67%
Santiago Muñez is a skilled footballer. The son of a gardener who lives in a barrio section of Los Angeles, Santiago works as a busboy in a Chinese restaurant and helps with his father's gardening business. His ultimate dream is to play football professionally. Due to his poverty and the fact that he plays solely for a club made up of Hispanics from a local car wash, he feels his chances are slim. Santiago is noticed by Glen Foy (Stephen Dillane), a former Newcastle United player who works as a car mechanic but still has ties to his old team. Glen arranges to get Santiago a tryout with Newcastle United, who recently signed talented new player Gavin Harris (Alessandro Nivola). Needing to get to England, Santiago begins to save his money in an old shoe, but his father finds the stash and takes it to buy a GMC truck to allow them to work for themselves. His dream is not lost though, as his grandmother sells off her jewellery to buy him a ticket to England.
Honest (2000)
, 1h45Directed by Dave Stewart
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Crime
Themes Heist films
Actors Nicole Appleton, Natalie Appleton, Melanie Blatt, Derek Deadman, Lynn Ferguson, Peter Facinelli
Roles Writer
Rating41%
The plot follows the antics of three gun-toting, streetwise, saucy sisters in Swinging London in the late 1960s. The film is most notable for the topless scenes by the Appleton sisters. Blatt and the Appletons also contributed to three songs on the film's soundtrack.
Still Crazy (1998)
, 1h32Directed by Brian Gibson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Stephen Rea, Bill Nighy, Timothy Spall, Billy Connolly, Jimmy Nail, Juliet Aubrey
Roles Writer
Rating69%
The band Strange Fruit performs at the 1977 Wisbech Rock Festival. Hughie Case tells how, due to the pursuit of "fame, fortune and fornication" – and the drug overdose of their original singer, Keith Lovell – this is their last performance. After various issues, the band prematurely ends their performance, frustrated over competing egos and various members' lack of self-control.
Excess Baggage (1997)
, 1h37Directed by Marco Brambilla
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Action, Crime, Romance
Themes Psychologie, Transport films, Road movies
Actors Alicia Silverstone, Benicio del Toro, Christopher Walken, Jack Thompson, Harry Connick, Leland Orser
Rating54%
Emily Hope (Alicia Silverstone) stages her own kidnapping to get the attention of her father. She puts herself into the trunk of her own car (a BMW 850i), tapes her legs and mouth, handcuffs her hands and calls the police so they can come "rescue" her. But then, unexpectedly, a car thief named Vincent Roche (Benicio del Toro) steals the car with her in it. Suddenly, Emily finds herself actually kidnapped, only the kidnapper doesn’t know what to do with her. Christopher Walken shows up as Emily’s Uncle Ray, Jack Thompson as Emily’s father, and Harry Connick, Jr., as Greg, Vincent’s car-stealing partner.
The Commitments (1991)
, 1h58Directed by Alan Parker
Origin Irlande
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about the labor movement, La précarité, Musical films
Actors Robert Arkins, Colm Meaney, Andrew Strong, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Bronagh Gallagher, Angeline Ball
Rating75%
In the northside of Dublin, Jimmy Rabbitte aspires to manage the world's greatest band, with only one music in mind: soul. Disgusted with bands in Ireland, and beginning with his friends Outspan and Derek, he assembles a band in the tradition of 1960s black American recording artists like Otis Redding, Aretha Franklin and Wilson Pickett. By advertising for applicants in a newspaper and asking around to promising acquaintances, Jimmy holds auditions at his parents' home and assembles a band together. Unlike his idols, Jimmy's band is white.
Vice Versa (1988)
, 1h38Directed by Brian Gilbert
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantastic, Comedy, Fantasy
Actors Judge Reinhold, Fred Savage, Swoosie Kurtz, Corinne Bohrer, Jane Kaczmarek, David Proval
Roles Writer
Rating58%
In Thailand, a pair of thieves steal an ancient skull from a Buddhist monastery.
Water (1985)
, 1h55Directed by Dick Clement
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Monde imaginaire, Transport films
Actors Michael Caine, Valerie Perrine, Brenda Vaccaro, Leonard Rossiter, Oscar James, Billy Connolly
Roles Writer
Rating59%
The story is set in the fictional Caribbean British colony of Cascara. Widely ignored by the British Government, media and general public, local Governor Baxter Thwaites is having an easy life in his small and peaceful colony. That peace is disturbed when an abandoned oil rig starts delivering water - at the standard of the finest table water brands (and laxative companies as it contains a substance that makes you "shit like clockwork"). Different parties, including Downing Street, the Cascara Liberation Front, the White House and the Cubans take interest in the future of the island and threaten to destroy the cosy way of life enjoyed by the island's inhabitants.
Never Say Never Again (1983)
, 2h14Directed by Irvin Kershner
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Action, Adventure, Spy
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about children, Spy films, Seafaring films, Films about terrorism, Transport films, Underwater action films, Arme nucléaire
Actors Sean Connery, Kim Basinger, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Barbara Carrera, Max von Sydow, Bernie Casey
Rating60%
After MI6 agent James Bond, 007, fails a routine training exercise, his superior, M, orders Bond to a health clinic outside London to get back into shape. While there, Bond witnesses a mysterious nurse named Fatima Blush giving a sadomasochistic beating to a patient in a nearby room. The man's face is bandaged and after Blush finishes her beating, Bond sees the patient using a machine which scans his eye. Bond is seen by Blush and an attempt is subsequently made to kill him in the clinic gym, but Bond manages to defeat the assassin.
Sunset Limousine (1983)
, 1h32Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors John Ritter, Susan Dey, Paul Reiser, James Luisi, Martin Short, Louise Sorel
Roles Writer
Rating52%
Alan O'Black (John Ritter) is an aspiring stand-up comic who takes on a job as limousine driver in order to prove to his girlfriend Julie (Susan Dey) after she has kicked him out of their shared home, that he can be a responsible adult. Her standing complaint about Alan as a boyfriend has been that he sees life as one long rehearsal. This is exacerbated by the fact that, even with a now-steady job and dealing with strange passenger/clients, Alan rehearses his comedy at every opportunity and deals with bizarre situations with good-natured aplomb. He and his buddy Jay (Paul Reiser) become involved the shady dealings of businessman Bradley Coleman (Martin Short), which results in a chase through Los Angeles with both sides of the law in pursuit.
Porridge (1979)
, 1h33Directed by Dick Clement
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Crime
Themes Prison films
Actors Ronnie Barker, Richard Beckinsale, Fulton Mackay, Brian Wilde, Peter Vaughan, Barrie Rutter
Roles Writer
Rating71%
In the film, which is set a year before the final episode of the TV series, Fletcher and Godber are forced by another inmate to escape from prison, and then have to try to break back in before they are found by the police.