20 February 1988 Comedy 59 mins
Paul, a former miner, writes a hard-hitting screenplay about his own experiences of the 1984 miners' strike. However, the Hollywood production company that gets hold of his script turns it into a ludicrously sensationalist and anachronistic action film, starring Al Pacino as Arthur Scargill, and Meryl Streep as his wife.
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Peter Richardson as Al Pacino as Arthur Scargill
Jennifer Saunders as Meryl Streep as Mrs Scargill
Alexei Sayle as Paul
Dawn French as Verity/Old Lady/Celebrity
Nigel Planer as Bernard/Old Man/Camp Actor
Robbie Coltrane as Goldie/Dutch/Celebrity
Adrian Edmondson as Adrian/Slim/Policeman
Keith Allen as Film Exec/Camp Actor 2/Celebrity
Rik Mayall as Speaker/Hunchback
Ronald Allen as Prime Minister
Kat Mansoor as Tammy
Derren Nesbitt as Chauffeur/McGregor
Steven O'Donnell as Gerry/2nd Man/Picketer
Daniel Peacock as Workman 1
Pete Richens as Workman 2
John Metcalfe Cinematography
Geoff Hogg Editor
Michael White Executive Producer
Peter Richardson Director
Peter Richardson Writer
Pete Richens Writer
Chris Brown Producer
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United Kingdom 20 February 1988
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These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1988:
01 January 1988
An interview with the production team behind the hit Broadway musical as they discuss the conception and development of Les Miserables as a pop-culture phenomenon.
14 January 1988
The story begins with formation of the new government when an honest person, Satya Murthy (Akkineni Nageswara Rao) becomes Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh.
04 August 1988
The unemployed and homeless orphan Bibbi, with background from jail and the street, but she is still very much herself.
25 April 1988
A St. Louis cop, Mike Braxton (Sam Jones), receives an urgent call for help from his brother Tony (Nick Cassavetes), a small time thief in Los Angeles.
16 September 1988
A distraught husband kidnaps the judge who freed his wife's killers on insufficient evidence. He gives him seven hours to find evidence that will put them away, or he'll kill his wife.
17 January 1988
...the electricity of opening day ...a kid's awe at his first big-league game ...the close-up presence of heroes, heroes and more heroes.
16 April 1988
Two sisters move to the country with their father in order to be closer to their hospitalized mother, and discover the surrounding trees are inhabited by Totoros, magical spirits of the forest.
26 February 1988
An American Army Major goes AWOL to Hong Kong for an outlawed martial arts contest called the Kumite.
26 February 1988
This somber drama chronicles the writings of Paltiel Kossover (Michel Jonasz), a Rumanian Jew who was incarcerated in a Stalinist prison.
31 March 1988
An Italian-American woman traveling to Sicily picks up a teenager who claims to be in trouble with some drug dealers.
14 May 1988
Yasuko, a housewife, lives in an urban high-rise apartment with her husband Satoru and her son Takuto.
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