Bill Forsyth
1) Local hero
Pub. Date
1983.
Description
"Knox Oil and Gas of Houston is far removed from the North Sea oil it desires and the sleepy Scottish village it wants to buy and replace with a refinery. So Knox sends its ace dealmaker to negotiate. He finds cheerful, future millionaires, awesome northern lights, a lusty innkeeper, a stubborn beachcomber and a mermaid with webbed toes"--Container.
2) Housekeeping
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
"Writer/director Bill Forsyth (Comfort and Joy, Being Human) brings to life this tale, set in the 1950s and based on a novel by Marilynne Robinson, which is neither a sentimental nor simple exploration of familial and emotional bonds. Ruth (Sara Walker) and Lucille (Andrea Burchill) are two young sisters who are abandoned by their mother and raised by a succession of aged relatives, until their unconventional aunt Sylvie (Christine Lahti, Running...
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Sixteen-year-old Gregory is an awkward, gangly Scottish lad who is amid the throngs of puberty. The object of his affection is Dorothy, despite or in part because she is a talented striker who took his place on the school's boys' football team, he now demoted to the distracted goalkeeper. Gregory tries to insinuate himself as much as possible in her life through her interests, such as learning Italian, without telling her that he likes her.
4) Being Human
Series
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
In five distinct yet cleverly interlocked roles, tells of a man who is a cave dweller, a Roman slave, a medieval wayfarer, a Portuguese nobleman shipwrecked in Africa and a modern Manhattanite whose homelife has hit the rocks. Each character reaches for survival, love, belonging; for all the things that made humankind draw together in the first place. Each is a human being faced with an unforgettable and universal challenge: Being Human.
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