The Flint Street Nativity

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 onDecember 1999.

There are inevitable mishaps, misunderstandings, young egos, fears of failure and fallings out. The childrens characters eventually evolve into mirror images of their parents when the actors all appear as their parents the plays audience at the postshow gathering.The story is based on real events, collected over ten years from members of Tim Firths family and friends who were teachers. Flint Street Primary School is modelled on Stockton Heath Primary School, where Firth attended and his mother taught. ........

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