Movie: Festival

Top 10 Billed Cast

Lyndsey Marshal
Lyndsey Marshal

Faith Myers

Chris O'Dowd
Chris O'Dowd

Tommy O'Dwyer

Daniela Nardini
Daniela Nardini

Joan Gerard

Stephen Mangan
Stephen Mangan

Sean Sullivan

Lucy Punch
Lucy Punch

Nicky Romanowski

Raquel Cassidy
Raquel Cassidy

Petra Loewenberg

Clive Russell
Clive Russell

Brother Mike

Amelia Bullmore
Amelia Bullmore

Micheline Menzies

Megan Dodds
Megan Dodds

Dina

Meredith MacNeill
Meredith MacNeill

Mary

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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

  • Release Date

    2005-07-15

  • Average

    6.2

  • Rating:

    3.1 starts
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    English
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