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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09 January 1993
Two very different crimes, a post office robbery and a murder, happens at the same time. Two detectives at the Bergen police station get each their case.
17 September 1993
The study of semantics has convinced Amedio that things only have relative validity, and that everything is changeable.
21 July 1993
This documentary explores the life and times of Russell Dean Willey, a neo-Nazi supergrass, in order to explain the presence of Jack Van Tongeren's Australian Nationalists Movement in Australia, and its spread, especially in difficult economic times.
31 August 1993
There never was a star quite like her. Adored by adults and children alike, at four she already led at the box office — ahead of Gable and Cooper.
02 July 1993
A Romeo-and-Juliet-tale between the soccer-clubs of St. Pauli and Rostock.
11 May 1993
In Perugia, Luca, a lawyer investigates mysterious facts that happened in the city and even got emotionally involved.
01 January 1993
Based on the poetry of Alejandra Pizarnik, ”Vertigo, or contemplation of something that falls”, tells the story of the writer's life through stories from her family, friends and admirers.
01 January 1993
Rhyme 'Em To Death reconstructs the trial from Victor Hugo's Hunchback of Notre Dame from a new perspective, that of a minor character - the goat.
09 September 1993
An interesting attempt at a postmodern crazy comedy with elements of parody. The plot turns on the search for the recipe of a liqueur made by the film’s financial backer.
01 January 1993
A struggling businessman stumbles upon a school for criminal activities.
01 January 1993
On one May day in 1864, N. G. Chernyshevsky, a writer and revolutionary democrat, was declared a state criminal and sentenced to hard labor in Siberian mines.
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