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Festival(2005)
Status: Released
Date: 2005-07-15
60%
14 Votes
Time: 1h 47m
Overview:
'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
Languages: English, Gaelic.
Countries:
United Kingdom
ProductionCompanies: 
Movie: Festival
Top 10 Billed Cast
Lyndsey Marshal
Faith Myers
Chris O'Dowd
Tommy O'Dwyer
Daniela Nardini
Joan Gerard
Stephen Mangan
Sean Sullivan
Lucy Punch
Nicky Romanowski
Raquel Cassidy
Petra Loewenberg
Clive Russell
Brother Mike
Amelia Bullmore
Micheline Menzies
Megan Dodds
Dina
Meredith MacNeill
Mary
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