Movies with Alison Steadman
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The Worst Week of My Life - Season One
Genres: Comedy
Year: 2004
Country: UK
Director: Mark Bussell, Justin Sbresni
Starring: Ben Miller, Alison Steadman, Sarah Alexander
Available Quality: DivX
The Worst Week of My Life is a British comedy television series, first broadcast on BBC One between March and April 2004. A second series was aired between November and December 2005 and a three-part Christmas special, The Worst Christmas of My Life was shown during December 2006. It was written by Mark Bussell and Justin Sbresni.
The Worst Week of My Life - Season Two
Genres: Comedy
Year: 2005
Country: UK
Director: Mark Bussell, Justin Sbresni
Starring: Ben Miller, Alison Steadman, Sarah Alexander
Available Quality: DivX
'Anything that can go wrong, does' is the plotline used by the writers. Essentially a comedy of embarrassment and errors, The Worst Week of My Life began with the seven days leading up to the marriage of publishing executive Howard Steel and his fiancée Mel, the daughter of a high-court judge, Dick Cook. Humiliating situations ensue: Cassie, a work colleague with whom Howard had a drunken one-night stand two years earlier, sets out to snare him and becomes obsessive; Howard accidentally kills his in-laws' dog, puts Mel's granny in hospital and loses the wedding ring (a family heirloom). At the end of the first series, Howard and Mel were wed...
Shirley Valentine
Genres: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Year: 1989
Country: USA, UK
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Starring: Bernard Hill, Tom Conti, Joanna Lumley, George Costigan, Sylvia Syms, Anna Keaveney, Alison Steadman
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Shirley's a middle-aged Liverpool housewife, who finds herself talking to the wall while she prepares her husband's chip'n'egg, wondering what happened to her life. She compares scenes in her current life with what she used to be like and feels she's stagnated and in a rut. But when her best friend wins an all-expenses-paid vacation to Greece for two, Shirley begins to see the world, and herself, in a different light.
Life Is Sweet
Year: 1991
Country: UK
Director: Mike Leigh
Starring: Jim Broadbent, Timothy Spall, David Thewlis, Jane Horrocks, Stephen Rea, Claire Skinner, Alison Steadman
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Just north of London live Wendy, Andy, and their twenty-something twins, Natalie and Nicola. Wendy clerks in a shop, leads aerobics at a primary school, jokes like a vaudevillian, agrees to waitress at a friend's new restaurant and dotes on Andy, a cook who forever puts off home remodeling projects, and with a drunken friend, buys a broken down lunch wagon. Natalie, with short neat hair and a snappy, droll manner, is a plumber; she has a holiday planned in America, but little else. Last is Nicola, odd man out: a snarl, big glasses, cigarette, mussed hair, jittery fingers, bulimic, jobless, and unhappy. How they interact and play out family co...
A Private Function
Genres: Comedy
Year: 1984
Country: UK
Director: Malcolm Mowbray
Starring: Richard Griffiths, Pete Postlethwaite, Maggie Smith, Jim Carter, Tony Haygarth, Denholm Elliott, Bill Paterson
Available Quality: Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
1947 in a small town in England. The war has been won two years ago, but there's still rationing of meat. When princess Elizabeth is going to marry, a group of businessmen wants to impress (or probably bribe) the local government by giving a big party. They want to slaughter an illegally raised pig for this event. Unfortunately someone steals the pig.
Gavin & Stacey - Season One
Year: 2007
Country: UK
Director: James Corden, Ruth Jones
Starring: Joanna Page, Alison Steadman, Mathew Horne
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Gavin and Stacey have been continuing their romance on-line and by telephone for the last six months. Now they want to be together but will their friends and family let them?
The Short & Curlies
Genres: Short
Year: 1987
Country: UK
Director: Mike Leigh
Starring: David Thewlis, Sylvestra Le Touzel, Wendy Nottingham, Alison Steadman
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
A short comedy by Mike Leigh about the romance between a young woman and a man who communicates only through jokes and humor. The story is told as a series of very short vignettes between her and the man and her and her doting mother, a hairdresser.
Confetti
Year: 2006
Country: UK
Director: Debbie Isitt
Starring: Martin Freeman, Jimmy Carr, Olivia Colman, Ron Cook, Julia Davis, Vincent Franklin, Sarah Hadland
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Confetti - a mockumentary which follows three couples, competing for the title of Most Original Wedding of the Year: The Musical Wedding, The Tennis Wedding and the Naturist Wedding.
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Genres: Action, Comedy, Adventure
Year: 1988
Country: UK, West Germany
Director: Terry Gilliam
Starring: Uma Thurman, Jonathan Pryce, John Neville, Charles McKeown, Eric Idle, Valentina Cortese, Peter Jeffrey
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
Baron Munchausen is a character of European myth that might be considered the predecessor of American tales of Pecos Bill or Paul Bunyan. The Baron's stories are taken to be outrageous and fanciful lies. This is the origin of the name of the psychiatric diagnosis of "Munchausen's Syndrome", a particularly bizzare form of hypochondria.
Clockwise
Genres: Comedy
Year: 1986
Country: UK
Director: Christopher Morahan
Starring: John Cleese, Alison Steadman, Penny Leatherbarrow, Howard Lloyd-Lewis, Jonathan Bowater, Stephen Moore, Mark Bunting
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Brian Stimpson is the headmaster of a comprehensive (high) school in England. He sets himself, his staff and pupils very high standards. On the way to a conference at which he is to talk, all manner of disasters strike.