Movies by Bill Forsyth
As a director:
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Gregory's Two Girls (1999)
Cast: Carly McKinnon, John Gordon Sinclair, John Murtagh …
Directed by: Bill Forsyth
Set nearly 20 years after the events of Gregory's Girl, this comedy sequel finds Gregory as a teacher in his mid-30s at the school he attended. He's caught in a bind when finds…
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Being Human (1994)
Cast: Robin Williams, Robert Carlyle, John Turturro …
Directed by: Bill Forsyth
Robin Williams plays five different characters -- all of whom are named Hector -- in this fantastical collection of vignettes that spans from a caveman's bleak Bronze Age days to the…
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Breaking In (1989)
Cast: Burt Reynolds, Casey Siemaszko, Sheila Kelley …
Directed by: Bill Forsyth
Burt Reynolds is Ernie, a career burglar who's ready to retire after one final job. But while he's raiding a prosperous suburban home, he meets another break-in artist -- a teenage…
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Local Hero (1983)
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Peter Riegert, Denis Lawson …
Directed by: Bill Forsyth
In this good-natured fish-out-of-water comedy, disenchanted Texas oil tycoon Felix Happer (Burt Lancaster) sets out to buy an entire Scottish town in order to drill offshore. When one…
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Gregory's Girl (1981)
Cast: John Gordon Sinclair, Dee Hepburn, Jake D'Arcy …
Directed by: Bill Forsyth
Awkward teenager Gregory (John Gordon Sinclair), who lives in a small Scottish town, has started to discover girls. He becomes particularly infatuated with Dorothy (Dee Hepburn) because she…
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That Sinking Feeling (1980)
Cast: Robert Buchanan, Billy Greenlees, John Gordon Sinclair …
Directed by: Bill Forsyth
Aimless, unemployed and on the verge of being broke, Ronnie (Robert Buchanan), Wal (Billy Greenlees) and a couple of their teenage friends concoct a crazy scheme to rob a plumber of stainless…