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John Wain
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The Smaller Sky · 1981The Smaller Sky
★ 7.01981
MovieDrama
A story of a dropout out of a succesful career and a loving family. He goes to a local railroad station, then checks into a hotel and refuses to leave despite visits by a psychiatrist and his own son. He watches people daily at the station. A tv reporter is trying to come up with a story which would help him to save his job. He likes to chase women and the dropout's wife is one of his targets. He gets interested in the story of her husband and tries to make a program about mysterious individual. Once the tv crew arrives to the scene, the subject tries to hide and ends up on the roof of the station, where he catches a glimpse of sunshine - the "smaller sky" - before stepping onto a glass roof and falling to his death.
Young Shoulders · 1984Young Shoulders
★ 7.01984
MovieDrama
John Wain adapts his own novel, about a young man who accompanies his feuding parents to Portugal for the memorial service of his sister, who died in a plane crash with her entire class.
To Seem the Stranger · 1986To Seem the Stranger
1986
MovieDocumentary
Documentary profiling the life of poet and priest, Gerard Manley Hopkins.
Play for Today · 1970Play for Today
★ 6.61970
SeriesDrama
Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.
One Pair of Eyes · 1967One Pair of Eyes
★ 7.01967
SeriesDocumentary
A monthly series of highly personal documentary films in which individuals are given a platform to discuss issues close to their heart.
Boy Meets Girl · 1967Boy Meets Girl
1967
SeriesDramaComedy
Anthology series of love stories.
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