Radio host Alan Bird witnesses how an ice cream van is attacked and destroyed by an angry competitor. Read More »
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Housekeeping (1987) Bill Forsyth, Christine Lahti, Sara Walker, Andrea Burchill
In the Pacific Northwest during the 1950’s, two young sisters whose mother has abandoned them wind up living with their Aunt Sylvie Read More »
Gregorys Girl (1980) Bill Forsyth, John Gordon Sinclair, Dee Hepburn, Jake D’Arcy
In his Scottish New Town home, gangling Gregory and his school-friends are starting to find out about girls. Read More »
That Sinking Feeling (1979) Bill Forsyth, Tom Mannion, Eddie Burt, Richard Demarco, Comedy, Crime
Ronnie, Wal, Andy and Vic are four bored, unemployed teens in dreary, rainy Glasgow. Ronnie comes up with a great idea. Read More »
Breaking In (1989) Bill Forsyth, Burt Reynolds, Casey Siemaszko, Sheila Kelley, Adventure, Comedy
Professional thief Ernie takes Mike on as an apprentice, but while Mike clearly has “larceny in his heart”, it will take him a long time to get as good as Ernie. Read More »
Local Hero (1983) Bill Forsyth, Burt Lancaster, Peter Riegert, Fulton Mackay, Comedy, Drama
Oil billionaire Happer sends Mac to a remote Scotish villiage to secure the property rights for an oil refinery they want to build. Mac teams up with Danny and starts the negotiations, the locals are keen to get their hands on the ‘Silver Dollar’ and can’t believe their luck. However a local hermit and beach scavenger, Ben Knox, lives in a shack on the crucial beach which he also owns. Happer is more interested in the Northern Lights and Danny in a surreal girl with webbed feet, Marina. Mac is used to a Houston office with fax machines but is forced to negotiate on Bens terms.
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