Festival
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'Festival' is a black comedy set during the annual Edinburgh Fringe festival. The film is based around both the judging of a major comedy award and the performers at one of the smaller venues. Various plot strands interweave, including the bitter relationship between a famous self-obsessed British comic and his ever-suffering assistant, an actress debuting at the festival with a one-woman show about Dorothy Wordsworth and a depressed, rich housewife who spies on the stoned Canadian theatre troupe to whom she has rented out her house
Status: Released
Released Date: 2005-07-15
Runtime: 107 mins
Director: Annie Griffin
Writer: Annie Griffin
Spoken language: English,
Genres: Drama, Comedy
Original title: Festival
Production Companies: Film4 Productions, UK Film Council
Production Countries: United Kingdom
Cast
Lyndsey Marshal
Chris O'Dowd
Daniela Nardini
Stephen Mangan
Lucy Punch
Raquel Cassidy
Clive Russell
Amelia Bullmore
Megan Dodds
Meredith MacNeill
Jonah Lotan
Richard Ayoade
Duncan Duff
Matthew Holness
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