Bill Forsyth

Bill Forsyth

July 29, 1946 · 79 years old

William David Forsyth (born 29 July 1946) is a Scottish film director and screenwriter known for his films Gregory's Girl (1981), Local Hero (1983) and Comfort and Joy (1984) as well as his adaptation of the Marilynne Robinson novel Housekeeping (1987). Description above from the Wikipedia article…

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Local Hero

Local Hero

1983 · 1h 51m · Movie

An American oil company has plans for a new refinery and sends someone to Scotland to buy up an entire village, but things don't go as expected.

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Gregory's Girl

Gregory's Girl

1980 · 1h 31m · Movie

Gregory is a normal teen who is infatuated with a classmate. He must work to win her affection.

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Housekeeping

Housekeeping

1987 · 1h 56m · Movie

After their mother commits suicide, two sisters end up living with their kind but peculiar aunt in their grandmother's old house in a small 1950s town.

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Comfort and Joy

Comfort and Joy

1984 · 1h 46m · Movie

Alan Bird witnesses how an ice cream van is attacked and destroyed by an angry competitor. This leads him into the struggle between two Italian families, the Bernardis and the Rossis, over whose ice cream vans can sell where in Gl...

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Breaking In

Breaking In

1989 · 1h 34m · Movie

Professional thief Ernie takes Mike on as an apprentice, but while Mike clearly has "larceny in his heart", it will take him a long time to get as good as Ernie.

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Gregory's Two Girls

Gregory's Two Girls

1999 · 1h 56m · Movie

Twenty years later, Gregory, now an English teacher, is approached by a student suspicious of a local businessman's activities. Obsessed with her, he ignores a colleague's romantic interest while investigating the case.

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