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Synopsis: Brian Stimpson is the headmaster of a comprehensive (high) school in England. He sets himself, his staff and pupils very high standards. On the way to a conference at which he is to talk, all manner of disasters strike.
Genre: Comedy
Director(s): Christopher Morahan
Production: Zubara Films
  1 win.
 
IMDB:
6.6
Rotten Tomatoes:
80%
PG
Year:
1986
96 min
576 Views


Because the first step to knowing who

we are, is knowing where we are,

and when we are!

I could drive you there.

The train doesn't go till 10:25.

You're ashamed of me,

aren't you?

You could go over to the hospital.

Don't tell me you're not allowed to take wives,

because if you're the chairman, you are.

I know that.

You could take some of your old

ladies out for a drive.

I don't have to come to the dinner

if that's what you're worrying about.

I could go out and get a

hamburger on my own.

This is a historic moment.

I stand before you today as

your new chairman.

I said I could go out and get a

hamburger in McDonald's.

Good, good. And did Paul get off

to school on time?

- Right. So you'll find somewhere to park...

- Park?

Make sure the train's running.

If it's not, you'll have to drive me there.

Platform 3,

Right, Norwich. We're on

time today, are we?

On the left.

Right...

On the left, governor.

Train on the left.

Glen Scully and Mandy Kostakis!

Yes!... Right.

Tomorrow then.

Right!

On the left, then.

Right.

- Right?

- Right.

This is a historic moment.

I stand before you today

as your new chairman,

something that few of us

ever expected to see happen

in our lifetime.

Something that few of us expected to see

in our lifetime.

This is the train for Norwich?

- Plymouth.

- Plymouth?

That was Norwich on the left.

Wait! Stop!

Right!

The 10:
25 to Norwich?

- You've missed it.

- It's on time? It is running?

It's run, it's gone, that's it.

That's alright then.

Gwenda!

Can't you tell the difference

between left and right?

You said Norwich...

That's Plymouth!

You didn't want Norwich?

The speech!

Speech? What, now?

Wait! Stop!

They've asked me to do some damned

silly things as I've stood 'ere,

but no one's ever asked me to

make a speech before.

Come on! Try this one then.

Plymouth, this one.

The speech...

Please, could you give me

the speech?

Right!

He's back.

You want the speech before

you go, do you?

"My lords, ladies and gentlemen..."

The next one to Norwich?

- 2:
47, change at Peterborough.

- Oh!

He didn't like it.

Gwenda!

Gwenda, wait!

Keep going, governor; it's never

too late till the last moment's come...

just so long...

just so long as your wife

hasn't taken the car!

Gwenda!

Where the hell is she?

Oh, you're here. Where's Mum?

- Don't tell me at the school.

- Yeah, I think she's...

I know she was at the school, you idiot. Where'd

she go after that? Don't say the station!

Yeah, I think she said...

God, give me strength!

But where is she now?

She's not at the hospital? She's not...

- ...driving old ladies around the countryside?

- Dunno, she might have said...

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Michael Frayn

Michael Frayn, FRSL (; born 8 September 1933) is an English playwright and novelist. He is best known as the author of the farce Noises Off and the dramas Copenhagen and Democracy. His novels, such as Towards the End of the Morning, Headlong and Spies, have also been critical and commercial successes, making him one of the handful of writers in the English language to succeed in both drama and prose fiction. He has also written philosophical works, such as The Human Touch: Our Part in the Creation of the Universe (2006). more…

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