Penny Woolcock — Playwright (5)
Tina Takes a Break (2001) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Tina Takes a Break
director: Penny Woolcock actor: Kelli Hollis / Lee Brimble
Second in the Tina trilogy of films (Tina Goes Shopping, Mischief Night) set on a tough Leeds housing estate and starring the residents who actually live there in real life. This time Tina is in prison and life on the estate is viewed through her children's eyes.
Exodus (2007) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Exodus
other title: 엑소더스 / 出埃及記
The story of Exodus is relocated to the seaside town Margate. Moses lives in the Promised Lands with his adoptive parents, until he finds his mother in the shanty town, Dreamland, where she’s been ghettoised with other ‘undesirables’. He takes on his father, Pharaoh, and leads a radical campaign to liberate the people of Dreamland.
Mischief Night (2006) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Mischief Night
director: Penny Woolcock actor: Kelli Hollis / James Foster
Everyone has Halloween, but in Yorkshire, they have Mischief Night, where madness and mayhem rule. In the course of one night, the barriers that separate two families—one white, one Asian—come tumbling down in a blaze of crime, clubbing, love and fireworks—changing all their lives forever.
Tina Goes Shopping (1999) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Tina Goes Shopping
director: Penny Woolcock actor: Kelli Hollis / Gwyn Hollis
The first film in the Tina trilogy, using the actual inhabitants of a tough Leeds council estate in the leading roles. Tina is a single mum who steals to order for her own `shopping' business, her drug-addict boyfriend Aaron is planning the theft of a cow so he can sell the meat, and Tina's father, Don, is the mobster in control of the local drugs trade.
The Death of Klinghoffer (2003) [Movie] IMDb Douban TMDB
The Death of Klinghoffer
director: Penny Woolcock actor: Sandford Sylvan / Christopher Maltman
other title: John Adams:The Death of Klinghoffer
An adaptation from the controversial John Adams opera about the true life incident that took place in the mid 80s. The liner "Achille Lauro" is on a 12-day cruise in the Mediterranean. While the ship is docked in Alexandria, a maid discovers that four of the passengers are actually members of the Palestine Liberation Organization traveling incognito. Startled by their discovery, the PLO cadre is forced to act. They take the passengers on board hostage and demand the release of 50 Palestinian activists held in Israeli jails. As Egyptian, American, Italian, and Palestinian authorities bicker over the best way to handle the situation (and who would negotiate with the terrorists), the kidnappers find themselves dealing with rebellion among their captives, and an argument between the four PLO members and Leon Klinghoffer, a Jewish-American confined to a wheelchair, eventually escalates into violence.