Festival

Festival

2005 · 107 min · ★ 6.0 · Drama, Comedy

'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

Directed by Annie Griffin · Written by Annie Griffin

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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
Jonah Lotan Rick
Richard Ayoade Dwight Swan

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