This movie deals with the problems suffered by many smaller girls' boarding schools during the early 1990s recession, and makes use of metaphor and analogy in its critique of the John Major government of the day.
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Georgina Glyn as George
Charlotte Payne as Charlie
Peter J. Morton as Jason
Fergus Brazier as Wayne
Tat Whalley as Jake
Kaleb Gumbs as Ryan
Glen Mead as Clint
Zoey Brand as Hayley
Jemima Rooper as Vicky
Gordon Griffin as Mr. Sefton
Victoria Finney as Mrs. Sefton
Susannah York as Miss Thorogood
Lucy Balmer as Isabel
Clemency Burton-Hill as Melissa
Lucinda Nicholson as Laurel
Kate Fowler as Rebecca Ritchie
Colin Finbow Director
Brianne Perkins Producer
David Hewson Music
Sam McCourt Camera Operator
Gillian Hawser Casting
Kate Plantin Casting
Carol Rennie Art Direction
Maria Trevis Art Direction
Len Kerswill Costume Designer
United Kingdom 01 June 1994
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24 June 1993
A gruesome look into the infamous and seemingly neverending 1991 Vizconde murder case in the Philippines where a woman, her teen daughter, and a 6-year-old were all viciously stabbed to death while the husband was away in America on business.
11 June 1993
Chellappa (Jayaram), an orphan, runs a photo studio in deficit with his friends (Chinni Jayanth and Vadivelu).
12 January 1993
Condominium residents are terrified when they learn that two of their neighbors have been brutally raped and that the culprit may be living in their midst.
01 October 1993
Set in the Bronx during the tumultuous 1960s, an adolescent boy is torn between his honest, working-class father and a violent yet charismatic crime boss.
20 May 1993
As part of the film's promotion, a mockumentary was aired on HBO. Titled Hearts of Hot Shots! Part Deux—A Filmmaker's Apology, the mockumentary parodied Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse, the 1991 documentary about the making of the film Apocalypse Now (which starred Charlie Sheen's father, Martin Sheen).
27 August 1993
Journalist Anna is trying to make a documentary about an opposition activist she met years ago.
25 December 1993
Billy and Jack are modern-day Robin Hoods who engage in petty scums to earn money for the upkeep of a daycare center for indigent and underprivileged children.
31 December 1993
Interviews with celebrities such as Joan Baez, Jackson Browne, Dennis Hopper and Willie Nelson examine the remarkable career of actor-performer Kris Kristofferson, who successfully bridged the gap between Hollywood and Nashville.
09 October 1993
Tired of scaring humans every October 31 with the same old bag of tricks, Jack Skellington, the spindly king of Halloween Town, kidnaps Santa Claus and plans to deliver shrunken heads and other ghoulish gifts to children on Christmas morning.
29 September 1993
Based on the real life story of Myrna Diones, a 14 year-old survivor of a brutal massacre of her, her sister and their two cousins in the Cordillera mountain range in northern Luzon by the very people who should've protect them, policemen .
01 January 1993
In an epic tale of theater, gender, love and class, two Beijing opera actors navigate political turmoil as their friendship evolves over decades.
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