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Release Date: 1986 Cast: Sharon Maiden, Jonathan Bowater, Stephen Moore, Joan Hickson, Penny Leatherbarrow, Alison Steadman, Patrick Godfrey, Howard Lloyd-Lewis, Michael Percival, John Bardon, Peter Needham, Geoffrey Palmer ...MORE
Cast: Sharon Maiden, Jonathan Bowater, Stephen Moore, Joan Hickson, Penny Leatherbarrow, Alison Steadman, Patrick Godfrey, Howard Lloyd-Lewis, Michael Percival, John Bardon, Peter Needham, Geoffrey Palmer, Christian Regan, Sydney Livingstone, Alan Parnaby, Mark Burdis, John Cleese, Penelope Wilton, Peter Cellier ...LESS
Categories: Movies, Parody, Comedy, Comedy of Errors, Comedy of manners, Screwball comedy Clockwise is a 1986 British comedy film starring John Cleese. It was directed by Christopher Morahan, written by Michael Frayn and produced by Michael Codron. The film was co-produced by Moment Films and Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment. The music in the film was composed by George Fenton.
Michael Frayn's screenplay has a different opening, involving illuminated digits on a clock radio, Cleese waking up when the alarm goes off and Cleese seen naked and wet in the shower ("a sight few of us expected to see in our lifetime").
For his performance in the film, Cleese won the 1987 Peter Sellers... MORE
Clockwise is a 1986 British comedy film starring John Cleese. It was directed by Christopher Morahan, written by Michael Frayn and produced by Michael Codron. The film was co-produced by Moment Films and Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment. The music in the film was composed by George Fenton.
Michael Frayn's screenplay has a different opening, involving illuminated digits on a clock radio, Cleese waking up when the alarm goes off and Cleese seen naked and wet in the shower ("a sight few of us expected to see in our lifetime").
For his performance in the film, Cleese won the 1987 Peter Sellers Award For Comedy at the Evening Standard British Film Awards.
The story describes the efforts of Brian Stimpson (Cleese), the headmaster of Thomas Tompion Comprehensive School, to travel to an annual Headmasters' Conference. Having been habitually late and disorganised as a young man, Stimpson has grown up to become fastidiously punctual, and his school runs "like clockwork". He is the first headmaster of a comprehensive school to be elected to chair a Headmaster's Conference, that honour usually being reserved for headmasters of the more prestigious private schools. After preparing and rehearsing LESS
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