Movies by Baz Taylor

Happy Since I Met You

Happy Since I Met You

A play by Victoria Wood. Frances is 28, single and happy, despite ritual interrogation from her family as to why she's not married. Then she meets Jim, and finds she has decisions to make.

Talent

Talent

A play with music by Victoria Wood. Julie (Julie Walters) is a young woman seeking escape, with the help of her frumpish friend Maureen (Wood) she prepares for her singing debut at a seedy Manchester club's talent show.

A Brush with Mr. Porter on the Road to El Dorado

A Brush with Mr. Porter on the Road to El Dorado

A black comedy about excessive consumption. A young couple are determined to make a break with a predictable future as servants of a large corporation and sink their savings into a restaurant. All is disaster until the appearance of the Porters, whose enthusiastic patronage soon has trade booming.

The Kamikaze Ground Staff Reunion Dinner

The Kamikaze Ground Staff Reunion Dinner

On August the 15th, 1945, after the official surrender of the Empire of Japan, Admiral Matome Ugaki led the last Special Attack Force pilots across the Pacific, to crash into American ships. Thirty-five years later, the men who serviced the aeroplanes are still meeting up for their annual dinner. Now settled into civilian jobs - dentist, baker, taxi-driver, insurance salesman - and with children and grandchildren, they bemoan the decay of traditional Japanese values. Hard liquor is imbibed, toasts raised to the memory of the heroic dead, and...

Where There's a Will

Where There's a Will

Charles Crow-Finch is a disorganised lawyer in debt; his son Rupert comes to bail him out. Rupert's girlfriend Cavatina buys Charles' practice and installs Rupert as the new boss.