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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These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1993:
16 September 1993
Kalle and his dad is having a long planned summer holiday at his grandparents in the countryside, where has made a hang-glider as planned.
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.
17 September 1993
The study of semantics has convinced Amedio that things only have relative validity, and that everything is changeable.
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.
30 June 1993
A documentary exploring the origins of the pioneers of women directors during the silent era.
30 December 1993
British filmmaker Beeban Kidron ventures onto the mean streets of the South Bronx and other New York locales to examine the lives of those involved in the city's thriving sex industry.
01 January 1993
Just before the advent of the Great Depression, Henry Ford controlled the most important company in the most important industry in the booming American economy.
11 June 1993
A wealthy entrepreneur secretly creates a theme park featuring living dinosaurs drawn from prehistoric DNA.
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).
14 July 1993
A world of the future where society is addicted to the drug of television. Supervision sessions create a perfect illusion of reality, making it almost impossible to return to reality.
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.
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