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The Flint Street Nativity
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    The Flint Street Nativity

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    The Flint Street Nativity
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    Genre Comedy
    Written by Tim Firth
    Directed by Marcus Mortimer
    Starring Frank Skinner
    Dervla Kirwan
    Neil Morrissey
    Jane Horrocks
    John Thomson
    Stephen Tompkinson
    Ralf Little
    Theme music composer Debbie Wiseman
    Country of origin United Kingdom
    Original language English
    Production
    Producers Dewi Griffiths
    Peter Elias Jones
    Paul Spencer
    Editor Mike Hopkins
    Running time 75 minutes
    Production companies Antena Productions
    Yorkshire Television
    Release
    Original network ITV
    Original release
    • 22 December 1999 (1999-12-22)

    The Flint Street Nativity is a 1999 British television comedy film directed by Marcus Mortimer, written by Tim Firth, and starring Frank Skinner, Neil Morrissey, Jane Horrocks, John Thomson, Stephen Tompkinson, Mark Addy, Ralf Little, Julia Sawalha, Mina Anwar and Dervla Kirwan. The film is about primary school children putting on a nativity play. It was broadcast by ITV on 22 December 1999.

    Plot

    The film is set in the fictitious inner city Flint Street Primary School, on the Welsh-Cheshire borders. It focuses on the seven- and eight-year-old pupils in that evening's sole performance of the school nativity play, from the pre-performance classroom preparations to the final stage performance, which culminates in calamity.

    There are inevitable mishaps, misunderstandings, young egos, fears of failure and fallings out. The children's characters eventually evolve into mirror images of their parents when the actors all appear as their parents (the play's audience) at the post-show gathering.

    Cast

    Production and release

    The story is based on real events, collected over ten years from members of Tim Firth's family and friends who were teachers. Flint Street Primary School is modelled on Stockton Heath Primary School, where Firth attended and his mother taught.

    The film was shot in Lansdowne Primary School in Canton, Cardiff. An oversize set was used to make the actors' characters more believable. The actresses wore swimsuits three sizes too small to flatten their adult body parts.

    The film was broadcast by ITV on 22 December 1999. It was originally released on DVD on 31 October 2005 and re-released on 3 November 2008.

    Reception

    In 2002, the film was voted in the top 15 Christmas TV moments on Channel 4.

    Alfred Hickling of The Guardian thought the film "exposes what an ungodly snake pit of paediatric power-politics the staging of your average Nativity play can be... There are moments when you may wet yourself laughing."

    Theatre adaptation

    Firth rewrote the play and added music for the stage production at the Liverpool Playhouse in 2006. It was repeated again in 2007.

    Award(s)

    Year Award Category Recipient(s) Result
    2000 BAFTA Cymru Best Design (Y Cynllunio Gorau) Hayden Pearce Won

    See also

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