"and Davis, serving as the show's guitarist, also plays bass for Vegas band My Name Engraved. Other notable Chippendales dancers are the actor Ian Ziering, the bachelor star Jake Pavelka, the actor Joey Lawrence, the singer Jeff Timmons, Taking Dawn band member Mikey Cross and professional wrestler Kenny King. In 1990 a ""Saturday Night Live"" skit featured guest host Patrick Swayze and Chris Farley competing in an audition to become a Chippendales dancer. The skit was discussed during a horseback ride between Nahin and Swayze. In the 1997 English comedy ""The Full Monty"", the characters' plan to form a striptease"
"Bean (film) Bean (also known as Bean: The Ultimate Disaster Movie or Bean: The Movie) is a 1997 comedy film based on the British television series ""Mr. Bean"". It is a British-American venture produced by Working Title Films, Tiger Aspect Films, PolyGram Filmed Entertainment and Gramercy Pictures. Directed by Mel Smith and written by Robin Driscoll and Richard Curtis (both ""Mr. Bean"" veterans), the film stars Rowan Atkinson in the title role, Peter MacNicol, Pamela Reed, Harris Yulin and Burt Reynolds. The film was released theatrically in the United Kingdom on August 2, 1997 and in the United States on"
"actor Rowan Atkinson famous all around the world. Later, he played in two movies based on 'Mr Bean' : ""Bean"" in 1997, and ""Mr. Bean's Holiday"" in 2007. Later, he parodied the James Bond secret agent in two British spy comedy film : ""Johnny English"", and ""Johnny English Reborn"". Some British comedies examined the role of the Asian community in British life, including ""Bhaji on the Beach"" (1993), ""East Is East"" (1999), ""Bend It Like Beckham"" (2002), ""Anita and Me"" (2003) and ""Death at a Funeral"" (2007). Some other comedies takes place in India, such as ""The Best Exotic Marigold"
"The Beans of Egypt, Maine The Beans of Egypt, Maine (also known as ""Forbidden Choices"") is a 1994 indie drama film directed by Jennifer Warren and starring Martha Plimpton, Kelly Lynch and Rutger Hauer. The film is based on a novel with the same name written by Carolyn Chute. The Beans are poor, proud, hated by all, but alive in the sense that they struggle against their lot and support each other in time of trouble. Earlene lives across the street from the Bean's trailer, and the view from her window is better than any daytime television soap opera; especially"
"1998 British Independent Film Awards, Meadows won the Douglas Hickox Award and the film was nominated in the Best British Independent Film category. Meadows won the FIPRESCI Prize at the 1998 Venice Film Festival. Twenty Four Seven (film) Twenty Four Seven is a 1997 British sports drama film directed and written by Shane Meadows. It was co-written by frequent Meadows collaborator Paul Fraser. In a typical English working-class town, the juveniles have nothing more to do than hang around in gangs. One day, Alan Darcy (Bob Hoskins), a highly motivated man with the same kind of youth experience, starts trying"
"Mr. Bean's Holiday Mr. Bean's Holiday is a 2007 family comedy film directed by Steve Bendelack and written by Hamish McColl and Robin Driscoll. It is a British-French-American venture produced by StudioCanal, Working Title Films, Tiger Aspect Films and Universal Pictures. Based on the British television series ""Mr. Bean"" and a stand-alone sequel to ""Bean"" (1997), the film stars Rowan Atkinson in the title role, Max Baldry, Emma de Caunes and Willem Dafoe. The film was theatrically released on 24 August 2007 in the United States to mixed reviews from critics but was a box office success, having grossed $229.7"
"again in 2002. The 1970 adaptation, which was not released until 1972, was directed by Peter Medak, starring Alan Bates, Janet Suzman, Joan Hickson, Peter Bowles and Elizabeth Robillard. A 2002 television version was directed by Robin Lough, with stars Eddie Izzard, Victoria Hamilton, Prunella Scales, and Robin Weaver. A Day in the Death of Joe Egg A Day in the Death of Joe Egg is a 1967 play by the English playwright Peter Nichols, first staged at the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow, Scotland, before transferring to the Comedy Theatre in London's West End. The play centers on a British"
"November 7, 1997 to mixed reviews from critics but was a box office success, grossing $250 million worldwide against an $18 million budget. A stand-alone sequel titled ""Mr. Bean's Holiday"" was released in 2007. Mr. Bean is a well-meaning, yet hopelessly clumsy, goofy and destructive security guard working at the ""Royal National Gallery"" in London. When the gallery's board of directors, who despise Bean for sleeping on the job, fail to fire him due to the chairman threatening repercussions, the board immediately decides on a different course of action and has him represent them during the transfer of the portrait"
"once ""Orphans"" started winning awards Channel Four apologised and asked if they could distribute it, an offer he refused. Orphans (1998 film) Orphans is a 1998 Scottish black comedy film written and directed by Peter Mullan and starring Douglas Henshall, Gary Lewis and Rosemarie Stevenson. This was the first full-length film directed by Mullan, who later won a Best Actor award at Cannes for ""My Name is Joe"", and who went on to direct ""The Magdalene Sisters"" and ""Neds"". He has said that the film is not autobiographical, but that he wrote the film shortly after the death of his"
"Python team) is ""A Fish Called Wanda"", a multicultural movie between British and American cultures, with the American actress Jamie Lee Curtis. To finish, Monty Python produced in 1983 ""Monty Python's The Meaning of Life"". One of the major developments of the 1990s was the re-emergence of the romantic comedy film, like ""Four Weddings and a Funeral"" (1994), ""Sliding Doors"" (1998), and ""Notting Hill"" (1999). Recent successful films, more representative of British humour were the working class comedies ""Brassed Off"" (1996) and ""The Full Monty"" (1997). In 1990 Rowan Atkinson created a series for TV ""Mr. Bean"", which made the"
"The Full Monty The Full Monty is a 1997 British comedy film directed by Peter Cattaneo, starring Robert Carlyle, Mark Addy, William Snape, Steve Huison, Tom Wilkinson, Paul Barber and Hugo Speer. The screenplay was written by Simon Beaufoy. The film is set in Sheffield, England and, starting off with a travelogue of the city in 1972, tells the story of six unemployed men, four of them former steel workers, who decide to form a male striptease act (à la Chippendale dancers) in order to gather enough money to get somewhere else and for the main character, Gaz, to be"
"sports comedy drama ""Bend It Like Beckham"" (2002) featured starring roles for Keira Knightley and Parminder Nagra. Famous for his creation Mr. Bean, the comedian Rowan Atkinson starred in ""Johnny English"" (2003). Wallace and Gromit creator and award-winning animator Nick Park directed ""Chicken Run"" (2000) and """" (2005). They are the two highest-grossing stop motion animated films. Helen Mirren starred as Elizabeth II in ""The Queen"" (2006). Acclaimed British sci-fi films, ""28 Days Later"" (2002), and ""Children of Men"" (2007), depict a dystopian Britain. Joe Wright's ""Atonement"" (2007) is set in England through WWII. Simon Pegg co-wrote and starred in"
"Ballet Shoes (film) Ballet Shoes is a 2007 British television film, adapted by Heidi Thomas from Noel Streatfeild's 1936 novel ""Ballet Shoes"". It was produced by Granada Productions (formerly Granada Television) and premiered on BBC One on 26 December 2007. It is directed by Sandra Goldbacher. A previous adaptation of ""Ballet Shoes"" was produced in serial format by the BBC in 1975 and directed by Timothy Combe. ""Ballet Shoes"" co-stars former ""Harry Potter"" stars Emma Watson as Pauline Fossil, Gemma Jones as Dr. Jakes, and Richard Griffiths as Gum. A practical young orphan, Sylvia Brown, and her stern nurse Nana"
"the Beanstalk with the Chuckle Brothers and Bonnie Langford. 1999 Snow White. 1998 Dick Whittington with Lesley Joseph, John Nettles and Hilary Minster. 1997 Cinderella with Bradley Walsh and Judy Cornwell. 1996 Peter Pan. 1993 Mother Goose with Frank Windsor and Maggie Moonie. 1991 Cinderella with Anne Charleston. 1985 Aladdin with The Patton Brothers, Jimmy Cricket and Barbara Windsor. 1981 Aladdin with Barbara Windsor, Keith Harris and Billy Dainty. 1975 Robin Hood with The Patton Brothers. 1974 Jack and the Beanstalk with Little and Large and Dorothy Dampier Theatre Royal, Nottingham The Theatre Royal in Nottingham, England, is a venue"
"Shooting Fish Shooting Fish is a 1997 British romantic crime comedy film directed by Stefan Schwartz and co-written with Richard Holmes. Starring Dan Futterman and Stuart Townsend as two con men with Kate Beckinsale as their unwilling assistant, the film was produced by Winchester Films and partly funded by National Lottery money administered through the UK Arts Council. ""Shooting Fish"" aimed to transfer well to international markets that were keen on British films following the success of ""Four Weddings and a Funeral"". The film was released in the United Kingdom on 17 October 1997 and in the United States on"
"of this film. The Fix (1997 film) The Fix is a 1997 television film first shown on BBC One and directed by Paul Greengrass. It tells the story of the British betting scandal of 1964, following which a number of British professional footballers were jailed and banned from football for life for conspiring to fix the results of matches. Prominent among those jailed and banned were the Sheffield Wednesday F.C. stars Peter Swan, Tony Kay and David Layne. The part of Mike Gabbert – the ""Sunday People"" journalist who led the investigation into the scandal – was played by Steve"
"Twenty Four Seven (film) Twenty Four Seven is a 1997 British sports drama film directed and written by Shane Meadows. It was co-written by frequent Meadows collaborator Paul Fraser. In a typical English working-class town, the juveniles have nothing more to do than hang around in gangs. One day, Alan Darcy (Bob Hoskins), a highly motivated man with the same kind of youth experience, starts trying to get the young people off the street and into doing something they can believe in; boxing. Soon, he opens a training facility which is accepted gratefully by them and the gangs start to"
"in key roles. For his role as Sam, Penn was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor at the 74th Academy Awards in 2002. The film launched the career of child actress Dakota Fanning, who was then seven years old and had only acted in two small roles. She became the youngest actress to be nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award. The movie's title is derived from the opening lines ""I am Sam / Sam I am"" of the book ""Green Eggs and Ham"", which is read in the movie. Sam Dawson (Sean Penn), a man with an"
"for the BBC series ""The House of Eliott"" (1991–93). Her film and television work includes ""Sons and Lovers"" (1981), ""Smiley's People"" (1982), ""Oliver Twist"" (1982), ""Titus Andronicus"" (1985), ""A Better Class of Person"" (1985), ""Roman Holiday"" (1987), ""The Lost Language of Cranes"" (1991), ""Cold Comfort Farm"" (1995), ""Talking Heads"" (1998), ""Madame Bovary"" (2000), ""David Copperfield"" (2000), ""Wit"" (2001) and ""Bertie and Elizabeth"" (2002), ""Cold Mountain"" (2003), ""What a Girl Wants"" (2003), ""Vanity Fair"" (2004), ""Ballet Shoes"" (2005) and ""Ask the Dust"" (2006). In the autumn of 2007, she co-starred with Dame Judi Dench and Sir Michael Gambon in the BBC"
"Crying Game"" (1992) – famous for its shocking twist, ""The Secret Garden"" (1993) – inspired by the walled garden at Great Maytham Hall in Kent, and ""Shadowlands"" (1993) starring Anthony Hopkins. Anthony Minghella's ""The English Patient"" (1996) won nine Academy Awards. BAFTA Award winning films included Danny Boyle's black comedy drama ""Trainspotting"" (1996) featuring heroin addict Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) and his circle of friends in Edinburgh, the 1997 comedy ""The Full Monty"" set in Sheffield, and the biographical drama ""Elizabeth"" (1998). Richard Curtis's 1994 film ""Four Weddings and a Funeral"", starring Hugh Grant in his breakthrough role, set a"
"tells you to think about yourself. You are going to be thinking: 'Fuck. What have I done with my life? Trainspotting (film) Trainspotting is a 1996 British black comedy film directed by Danny Boyle and starring Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd, Robert Carlyle, and Kelly Macdonald in her acting debut. Based on the novel of the same name by Irvine Welsh, the film was released in the United Kingdom on 23 February 1996. The Academy Award-nominated screenplay by John Hodge follows a group of heroin addicts in an economically depressed area of Edinburgh and their passage"
"Monty"" ""' ""Nil by Mouth"" ""' ""L'Appartement"" ""' ""The Wings of the Dove"" ""Romeo + Juliet"" - Nellee Hooper ""' ""Romeo + Juliet"" ""' ""Romeo + Juliet"" - Baz Luhrmann and Craig Pearce ""' ""Nil by Mouth"" - Gary Oldman ""' ""L.A. Confidential"" ""' ""The Fifth Element"" ""' Tom Wilkinson - ""The Full Monty"" ""' Sigourney Weaver - ""The Ice Storm"" 51st British Academy Film Awards The 51st BAFTA Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts on 19 April 1998, honoured the best in film for 1997. Peter Cattaneo's The Full Monty won the award"
"the mental age of a kindergartener, ""Mr. Bean's Holiday"" is viable comic entertainment"" and also, ""The film, set mostly in France, pays homage to Jacques Tati, but the mostly silent gags feel like watered-down Bean."" Mr. Bean's Holiday Mr. Bean's Holiday is a 2007 family comedy film directed by Steve Bendelack and written by Hamish McColl and Robin Driscoll. It is a British-French-American venture produced by StudioCanal, Working Title Films, Tiger Aspect Films and Universal Pictures. Based on the British television series ""Mr. Bean"" and a stand-alone sequel to ""Bean"" (1997), the film stars Rowan Atkinson in the title role,"
"1996 for the Genie Awards in 3 categories: Best Achievement in Costume Design (Emma England), Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role (Helene Clarkson), and Best Original Screenplay (Andrew Rai Berzins). Blood and Donuts Blood and Donuts is a 1995 Canadian horror comedy film directed by Holly Dale, written by Andrew Rai Berzins, and starring Gordon Currie and Helene Clarkson. David Cronenberg plays a cameo role as the local crime boss. The film features a vampire who is accidentally awakened after 25 years of sleep and starts to shyly make contact with the mortal world around him. As"
"Lion, who produced ""The Wicker Man"", were finally absorbed into the film division of EMI, who had taken over ABPC in 1969. The duopoly in British cinema exhibition, via Rank and now EMI, continued. Some British producers, including Hammer, turned to television for inspiration, and big screen versions of popular sitcoms like ""On the Buses"" (1971) and ""Steptoe and Son"" (1972) proved successful with domestic audiences, the former had greater domestic box office returns in its year than the Bond film, ""Diamonds Are Forever"". Low-budget British sex comedies included the ""Confessions of ..."" series starring Robin Askwith, beginning with ""Confessions"
"Richard Curtis Richard Whalley Anthony Curtis, (born 8 November 1956), is a British screenwriter, producer, and film director, who was born in New Zealand to Australian parents. One of Britain's most successful comedy screenwriters, he is known primarily for his romantic comedy films, among them ""Four Weddings and a Funeral"" (1994), ""Notting Hill"" (1999), ""Bridget Jones's Diary"" (2001), ""Love Actually"" (2003), and ""About Time"" (2013). He is also known for the drama ""War Horse"" (2011), and for having co-written the hit sitcoms ""Blackadder"", ""Mr. Bean"", and ""The Vicar of Dibley"". In 2007, Curtis received the BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award, the"
"able to see his son. Gaz declares that their show will be better than the Chippendales dancers because they will go ""the full monty""—strip all the way—hence the film's title. Despite being a comedy, the film also touches on serious subjects such as unemployment, fathers' rights, depression, impotence, homosexuality, body image, working class culture and suicide. ""The Full Monty"" was a major critical success upon release and an international commercial success, grossing over $250 million from a budget of only $3.5 million. It was the highest-grossing film in the UK until it was outsold by ""Titanic"". It won the BAFTA"
"and plans were cancelled for future films. Nanny McPhee Nanny McPhee is a 2005 British family comedy fantasy film based on Nurse Matilda by Christianna Brand. It was directed by Kirk Jones, co-produced by StudioCanal, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Working Title Films, Three Strange Angels, and Nanny McPhee Productions with music by Patrick Doyle and produced by Lindsay Doran, Tim Bevan, and Eric Fellner. Set in Victorian England, the film stars Emma Thompson as Nanny McPhee, along with Colin Firth and Angela Lansbury. The film was theatrically released on 28 October 2005 in the UK and on 27 January 2006 in the US"
"The Fabergé egg in the film is real; it was made in 1897 and is called the ""Coronation Egg"", although the egg in the film is named in the auction catalogue as ""Property of a Lady"", which is the name of one of Ian Fleming's short stories released in more recent editions of the collection ""Octopussy and The Living Daylights"". In a bit of diegesis that ""breaks the fourth wall"", Vijay signals his affiliation to MI6 by playing the James Bond Theme on a recorder while Bond is disembarking from a boat in the harbour near the City Palace. Like"
"of history"". Atkinson's other creation, the hapless ""Mr. Bean"", first appeared on New Year's Day in 1990 in a half-hour special for Thames Television. The character of Mr. Bean has been likened to a modern-day Buster Keaton, but Atkinson himself has stated that Jacques Tati's character Monsieur Hulot was the main inspiration. Several sequels to ""Mr. Bean"" appeared on television until 1995, and the character later appeared in a feature film. ""Bean"" (1997) was directed by Mel Smith, Atkinson's colleague in ""Not the Nine O'Clock News"". A second film, ""Mr. Bean's Holiday"", was released in 2007. In 1995 and 1996,"
"Actor for Kline. Cleese and Palin won BAFTA Awards for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor for their performances. A spiritual sequel, ""Fierce Creatures,"" was released in 1997. The British Film Institute ranked ""A Fish Called Wanda"" the 39th-greatest British film of the 20th century. London-based gangster George Thomason and his right-hand man, Ken Pile, an animal lover with a stutter, plan a jewel heist. They bring in two Americans: con artist Wanda Gershwitz and weapons expert Otto West, a mean-spirited anglophobe. Wanda and Otto are lovers, but they hide this from George and Ken, pretending to be siblings, so"
"3. Pigs at a Picnic (1999) 4. Pup at the Palace (2000) 5. Porpoise in a Pool (2001) 6. Stallion in a Stable (2002) 7. Siamese in the Sun (2003) 1. Sheepdog in the Snow (1995) 2. Kitten in the Cold (1996) 3. Fox in the Frost (1997) 4. Hamster in the Holly (1998) 5. Pony in a Package/Pony at the Post (UK title) (1999) 6. Mouse in the Mistletoe (2000) 7. Terrier in the Tinsel (2001) 8. Cats in the Candlelight (2002) 9. Racehorse in the Rain (2003) 10. Collie with a Card (2004) Valentine Special 11. Bunny in"
"helps Ken stay out of trouble. Armageddon (1997 film) Armageddon is a 1997 Hong Kong action sci-fi romance film directed by Gordon Chan, and starring Andy Lau, Michelle Reis and Anthony Wong. In the near future, 10 men are voted as the 10 who could lead the world; on the list is leading Hong Kong scientist Dr. Ken (Andy Lau). When some of the other important figures on the list start dying in suspicious cases of spontaneous human combustion, the Hong Kong CID and the British MI6 get involved to try to protect Dr. Ken. Ken's close friend in the"