Biography: Bill Forsyth |
Consistently described as quirky and droll, Scottish filmmaker Bill Forsyth mastered the art of the unexpected with the release of his first film, That Sinking Feeling, the episodic moral tale of an unemployed band of urban Glasgow youths trying to... more
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Cast: Kevin Anderson
Tags: Comedy Drama Comedy of Errors
Length: 116min
Gregory Underwood is an idealistic teacher whose head is full of the columns of the liberal magazines he religiously reads. He feels he is a citizen of the world, but he does most of his living inside his head. Voluptuous music teacher Belle is crazy...
Cast: John Turturro Robin Williams Hector Elizondo William H. Macy Vincent D'Onofrio
Tags: Drama Melodrama Period Film
Length: 125min
Five fables, each set in a different historical era, make up this quirky comedy from director Bill Forsyth. Each tale features Robin Williams as a basically decent but troubled average man named Hector. Beginning with the Bronze Age, where Hector...
Cast: Burt Reynolds Casey Siemaszko Albert Salmi
Tags: Crime Comedy Odd Couple Film Comedy
Length: 95min
In this comedy (which claims a strong pedigree -- it was written by John Sayles and directed by Bill Forsyth), Burt Reynolds plays Ernie, an aging career burglar who knows just about everything there is to know about breaking and entering. One night,...
Cast: Bill Forsyth Christine Lahti
Tags: Comedy Drama Coming-of-Age Feminist Film
Length: 117min
Housekeeping is the film in which Christine Lahti invites a guest into a living room half-submerged in water. This is hardly the oddest moment in this characteristically quirky Bill Forsyth film (his first American production). When their grandmother...
Cast: Bill Paterson
Tags: Screwball Comedy Comedy
Length: 93min
Writer/director Bill Forsyth's follow-up to his best film, Local Hero, is another comic exploration of a man undergoing a personal crisis. In Local Hero, the American played by Peter Riegert finds himself enchanted by the people and ambience of a...
Cast: Burt Lancaster David Puttnam
Tags: Comedy of Manners Comedy
Length: 112min
Bill Forsyth's whimsical tale of sweet-natured corporate rapacity features standout performances by Burt Lancaster and Peter Riegert. Lancaster plays Texas billionaire Felix Happer, who would rather gaze at the stars than worry about his...
Tags: Coming-of-Age Romance Teen Movie Comedy Drama Romantic Comedy
Length: 91min
The sophomore film of Scottish director Bill Forsyth was his first international hit, a typically quirky comedy set amongst colorful Scottish teenagers. Gregory (John Gordon Sinclair) is a normal, gangly, hormonally-challenged student who, like his...
Tags: Crime Comedy Crime
Length: 82min
Bill Forsyth displays some of the fey quirkiness that would distinguish his later, better-known directorial efforts in 1979's That Sinking Feeling. The film details the misadventures of four aimless Scottish youths, who impulsively steal a shipment of...
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