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Adrian Dunbar

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Adrian Dunbar (born 1 August 1958) is an actor and director from Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, best known for his television and theatre work. [1]

86 relations: A Touch of Frost, A World Apart (film), Abbey Theatre, Anthony Hopkins, Arsenal F.C., Artemis Fowl, Ashes to Ashes (TV series), Austin, Texas, Bail Organa, Baldi (radio), BBC One, BBC Radio, Brendan Behan, Brian Kennedy (singer), British Academy Film Awards, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, Broken (TV series), Children of the North, Ciarán McMenamin, Colm Meaney, Congregation of Christian Brothers, Conversations on a Homecoming, Coriolanus, County Fermanagh, Cracker (UK TV series), Crouch End, Dealers (film), Death in Paradise (TV series), Doctor of Letters, Enniskillen, Eoin Colfer, Exiles (play), Eye of the Dolphin, Girl with a Pearl Earring (play), Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Hear My Song, Honorary degree, Hugh Grant, Innocent Lies, Inspector Morse (TV series), Irish Film & Television Academy, Janet Behan, Jimmy Smits, Johannes Vermeer, Kidnapped (2005 miniseries), Kidnapped (novel), King Lear, Lenny Blue, Line of Duty, London, ..., Lyric Theatre, Belfast, Mickybo and Me, Mo (2010 film), Murder in Mind (TV series), Murphy's Law (UK TV series), My Left Foot, Nashville, Tennessee, New York City, Northern Ireland, Oscar Wilde, People of Northern Ireland, Philadelphia, Here I Come!, Play for Today, Police procedural, Retroactive continuity, Richard III (1995 film), Robert Louis Stevenson, Royal Court Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, Shooters (2002 film), Sky Bandits (1986 film), Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, Tasmania, Television show, The Blue Boy (film), The Crying Game, The Dawning, The General (1998 film), The Hollow Crown (TV series), The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce, The New York Times, The Quatermass Experiment (film), Triggermen, Ulster University, Widows' Peak, Wild About Harry (2000 film). Expand index (36 more) »

A Touch of Frost

A Touch of Frost is a television detective series produced by Yorkshire Television (later ITV Studios) for ITV from 6 December 1992 until 5 April 2010, initially based on the Frost novels by R. D. Wingfield.

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A World Apart (film)

A World Apart is a 1988 anti-apartheid drama, written by Shawn Slovo and directed by Chris Menges.

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Abbey Theatre

The Abbey Theatre (Amharclann na Mainistreach), also known as the National Theatre of Ireland (Amharclann Náisiúnta na hÉireann), in Dublin, Republic of Ireland, first opened its doors to the public on 27 December 1904.

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Anthony Hopkins

Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins (born 31 December 1937), better known as Anthony Hopkins, is a Welsh actor, widely considered to be one of the world's greatest living actors.

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Arsenal F.C.

Arsenal Football Club is a professional football club based in Islington, London, England, that plays in the Premier League, the top flight of English football.

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Artemis Fowl

Artemis Fowl is a series of eight science fiction fantasy novels written by Irish author Eoin Colfer, featuring the criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl II.

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Ashes to Ashes (TV series)

Ashes to Ashes is a British crime drama and police procedural drama television series, serving as the sequel to Life on Mars.

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Austin, Texas

Austin is the capital of the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Travis County, with portions extending into Hays and Williamson counties.

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Bail Organa

Senator Bail Organa of Alderaan, is a fictional character in the ''Star Wars'' franchise, portrayed by actor Jimmy Smits in Attack of the Clones (2002), Revenge of the Sith (2005), and Rogue One (2016).

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Baldi (radio)

Baldi is a BBC Radio 4 murder mystery series whose central character is Paolo Baldi (played by David Threlfall), a Franciscan priest on sabbatical, lecturing on semiotics at a university in contemporary Dublin.

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BBC One

BBC One is the flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom, Isle of Man and Channel Islands.

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BBC Radio

BBC Radio is an operational business division and service of the British Broadcasting Corporation (which has operated in the United Kingdom under the terms of a Royal Charter since 1927).

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Brendan Behan

Brendan Francis Aidan Behan (christened Francis Behan) (Breandán Ó Beacháin; 9 February 1923 – 20 March 1964) was an Irish poet, short story writer, novelist and playwright who wrote in both English and Irish.

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Brian Kennedy (singer)

Brian Edward Patrick Kennedy (born 12 October 1966) is an Irish singer-songwriter and author from Belfast, Northern Ireland.

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British Academy Film Awards

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts or BAFTA Film Awards are presented in an annual award show hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) to honour the best British and international contributions to film.

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British Academy of Film and Television Arts

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) is an independent charity that supports, develops and promotes the art forms of the moving image – film, television and game in the United Kingdom.

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Broken (TV series)

Broken is a six-part British television drama series, created by screenwriter Jimmy McGovern, that first broadcast on BBC One on 30 May 2017.

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Children of the North

Children of the North is a British television thriller drama series, written by John Hale, that first broadcast on BBC2 on 30 October 1991.

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Ciarán McMenamin

Ciarán McMenamin (born 1 October 1975) is a Northern Irish actor, resident in London.

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Colm Meaney

Colm J. Meaney (Irish: Colm Ó Maonaigh; born 30 May 1953) is an Irish actor known for playing Miles O'Brien in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

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Congregation of Christian Brothers

The Congregation of Christian Brothers (officially, in Latin: Congregatio Fratrum Christianorum; members of the order use the post-nominal "CFC") is a worldwide religious community within the Catholic Church, founded by Edmund Rice (later beatified).

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Conversations on a Homecoming

Conversations on a Homecoming is a 1985 play by Irish playwright Tom Murphy.

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Coriolanus

Coriolanus is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1605 and 1608.

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County Fermanagh

County Fermanagh is one of the thirty-two counties of Ireland and one of the six counties of Northern Ireland.

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Cracker (UK TV series)

Cracker is a British crime drama series produced by Granada Television for ITV, created and principally written by Jimmy McGovern.

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Crouch End

Crouch End is an area of north London, in the London Borough of Haringey north of the Archway, west of Harringay, south of Wood Green and east of Highgate; it lies approximately 5 miles north of the City of London.

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Dealers (film)

Dealers is a 1989 British film directed by Colin Bucksey.

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Death in Paradise (TV series)

Death in Paradise is a British-French crime drama television series created by Robert Thorogood, starring Ben Miller (series 1–3), Kris Marshall (series 3–6) and Ardal O'Hanlon (series 6–present).

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Doctor of Letters

Doctor of Letters (D.Litt., Litt.D., D. Lit., or Lit. D.; Latin Litterarum Doctor or Doctor Litterarum) is an academic degree, a higher doctorate which, in some countries, may be considered to be beyond the Ph.D. and equal to the Doctor of Science (Sc.D. or D.Sc.). It is awarded in many countries by universities and learned bodies in recognition of achievement in the humanities, original contribution to the creative arts or scholarship and other merits.

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Enniskillen

Enniskillen is a town and civil parish in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.

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Eoin Colfer

Eoin Colfer (born 14 May 1965) is an Irish author of children's books.

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Exiles (play)

Exiles is James Joyce's only extant play and draws on the story of "The Dead", the final short story in Joyce's story collection Dubliners.

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Eye of the Dolphin

Eye of the Dolphin is a 2007 American drama film written by Wendell Morris & Michael Sellers.

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Girl with a Pearl Earring (play)

Girl with a Pearl Earring is a 2008 play.

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Guildhall School of Music and Drama

The Guildhall School of Music and Drama is an independent music and dramatic arts school which was founded in 1880 in London, England.

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Hear My Song

Hear My Song is a 1991 drama film written by the actors Peter Chelsom (who also directed) and Adrian Dunbar (who plays the lead) based on the story of Irish tenor Josef Locke.

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Honorary degree

An honorary degree, in Latin a degree honoris causa ("for the sake of the honor") or ad honorem ("to the honor"), is an academic degree for which a university (or other degree-awarding institution) has waived the usual requirements, such as matriculation, residence, a dissertation and the passing of comprehensive examinations.

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Hugh Grant

Hugh John Mungo Grant OBE (born 9 September 1960) is an English actor and film producer.

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Innocent Lies

Innocent Lies is a 1995 British-French thriller film directed by Patrick Dewolf and starring Stephen Dorff, Gabrielle Anwar, Adrian Dunbar and Joanna Lumley.

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Inspector Morse (TV series)

Inspector Morse is a British detective drama television series based on a series of novels by Colin Dexter.

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Irish Film & Television Academy

The Irish Film & Television Academy (IFTA) is an all-Ireland organization focused on film and television.

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Janet Behan

Janet Behan (22 July 1954) is an English writer and actress.

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Jimmy Smits

Jimmy Smits (born July 9, 1955) is an American actor.

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Johannes Vermeer

Johannes Vermeer (October 1632 – December 1675) was a Dutch painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle-class life.

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Kidnapped (2005 miniseries)

Kidnapped is a two-part BBC television adaptation of the 1893 novel of the same name by Robert Louis Stevenson.

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Kidnapped (novel)

Kidnapped is a historical fiction adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, written as a boys' novel and first published in the magazine Young Folks from May to July 1886.

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King Lear

King Lear is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare.

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Lenny Blue

Lenny Blue is a British television crime drama series first broadcast on ITV between 1 October 2000 and 2 July 2002, under the title of Tough Love.

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Line of Duty

Line of Duty is a BBC police procedural television series created by Jed Mercurio that premiered on 26 June 2012.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Lyric Theatre, Belfast

The Lyric Players' Theatre, more commonly known as The Lyric Theatre, or simply The Lyric, is the main full-time producing theatre in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

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Mickybo and Me

Mickybo and Me is a 2004 Northern Irish comedy-drama film written and directed by Terry Loane and based on the stage play Mojo Mickybo by Owen McCafferty.

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Mo (2010 film)

Mo is a 2010 TV film about the later life and career of the British Labour Party politician Mo Mowlam, written by Neil McKay and directed by Philip Martin.

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Murder in Mind (TV series)

Murder in Mind is a British television anthology series of self-contained stories, each with a murderous theme, seen from the perspective of the murderer.

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Murphy's Law (UK TV series)

Murphy's Law is a BBC television drama, produced by Tiger Aspect Productions for BBC Northern Ireland, starring James Nesbitt as an undercover police officer, Tommy Murphy.

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My Left Foot

My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown is a 1989 biographical drama film co-written and directed by Jim Sheridan and starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Brenda Fricker, Ray McAnally and Fiona Shaw.

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Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the seat of Davidson County.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland (Tuaisceart Éireann; Ulster-Scots: Norlin Airlann) is a part of the United Kingdom in the north-east of the island of Ireland, variously described as a country, province or region.

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Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright.

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People of Northern Ireland

The people of Northern Ireland, or Northern Irish people, are all people born in Northern Ireland and having, at the time of their birth, at least one parent who is a British citizen, an Irish citizen or is otherwise entitled to reside in Northern Ireland without any restriction on their period of residence,The Good Friday Agreement guarantees the "recognition of the birthright of all the people of Northern Ireland to identify themselves and be accepted as Irish or British, or both, as they may so choose." under the Belfast Agreement.

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Philadelphia, Here I Come!

Philadelphia, Here I Come! is a 1964 play by Irish dramatist Brian Friel.

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Play for Today

Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984.

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Police procedural

The police procedural, or police crime drama, is a subgenre of detective fiction that depicts investigations into several unrelated crimes in a single story or episode.

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Retroactive continuity

Retroactive continuity, or retcon for short, is a literary device in which established facts in a fictional work are adjusted, ignored, or contradicted by a subsequently published work which breaks continuity with the former.

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Richard III (1995 film)

Richard III is a 1995 British drama film adapted from William Shakespeare's play of the same name, starring Ian McKellen, Annette Bening, Jim Broadbent, Robert Downey Jr., Nigel Hawthorne, Kristin Scott Thomas, Maggie Smith, John Wood, and Dominic West.

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Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, musician and travel writer.

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Royal Court Theatre

The Royal Court Theatre, at different times known as the Court Theatre, the New Chelsea Theatre, and the Belgravia Theatre, is a non-commercial West End theatre on Sloane Square, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London, England.

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Royal Shakespeare Company

The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) is a major British theatre company, based in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England.

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Shooters (2002 film)

Shooters is a 2002 British crime drama film from directors Colin Teague and Glenn Durfort, and writers Andrew Howard, Louis Dempsey and Gary Young.

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Sky Bandits (1986 film)

Sky Bandits, also known as Gunbus, is a 1986 British adventure film about two outlaws from the Wild West, drafted to the battlefields of WWI, who enlist in the fledgling Royal Air Force flying early warplanes called gunbuses.

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Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace

Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace is a 1999 American epic space opera written and directed by George Lucas, produced by Lucasfilm and distributed by 20th Century Fox.

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Tasmania

Tasmania (abbreviated as Tas and known colloquially as Tassie) is an island state of Australia.

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Television show

A television show (often simply TV show) is any content produced for broadcast via over-the-air, satellite, cable, or internet and typically viewed on a television set, excluding breaking news, advertisements, or trailers that are typically placed between shows.

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The Blue Boy (film)

The Blue Boy is a 1994 British television film, starring Emma Thompson.

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The Crying Game

The Crying Game is a 1992 English-language thriller film written and directed by Neil Jordan.

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The Dawning

The Dawning is a 1988 British film, based on Jennifer Johnston's novel, The Old Jest which depicts the Irish War of Independence through the eyes of the Anglo-Irish landlord class.

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The General (1998 film)

The General is a British-Irish crime film directed by John Boorman about Dublin crime boss Martin Cahill, who pulled off several daring heists in the early 1980s and attracted the attention of the Garda Síochána, IRA, and Ulster Volunteer Force.

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The Hollow Crown (TV series)

The Hollow Crown is a series of British television film adaptations of William Shakespeare's history plays.

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The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce

The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce is a 2008 Australian film directed by Michael James Rowland starring Irish actors Adrian Dunbar as Philip Conolly and Ciarán McMenamin as bushranger Alexander Pearce and an ensemble Australian cast, including Dan Wyllie, Don Hany and Chris Haywood.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Quatermass Experiment (film)

The Quatermass Experiment was a 2005 live remake of the 1953 TV series of the same name by Nigel Kneale.

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Triggermen

Triggermen is a 2002 crime comedy film written by Tony Johnston and Mark Thomas and directed by John Bradshaw for First Look International.

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Ulster University

Ulster University (Ollscoil Uladh, Ulster Scots: Ulstèr Universitie or Ulstèr Varsitie), officially the University of Ulster, is a multi-campus public university located in Northern Ireland.

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Widows' Peak

Widows' Peak is a 1994 British-Irish film which stars Mia Farrow, Joan Plowright, Natasha Richardson, Adrian Dunbar and Jim Broadbent and was directed by John Irvin.

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Wild About Harry (2000 film)

Wild About Harry is a 2000 British comedy film directed by Declan Lowney and written by Colin Bateman.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Dunbar

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