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The Girl in the Caf is a British madefortelevision drama film directed by David Yates, written by Richard Curtis and produced by Hilary Bevan Jones. The film is produced by the independent production company Tightrope Pictures and was originally screened on BBC One in the United Kingdom onJune 2005. It was also shown in the United States on cable television station Home Box Office on the same day. Bill Nighy portrays the character of Lawrence, with Kelly Macdonald portraying Gina. Nighy and Macdonald had previously starred together in the 2003 BBC serial State of Play, which was also directed by Yates and produced by BevanJones. The Girl in the Cafs casting director is Fiona Weir who, at the time, was also the casting director for the Harry Potter films, the last four of which Yates directed. The film was noted at the 2006 Primetime Emmy Awards it won for Outstanding Made for Television Movie.

The production was conceived to tiein both with the BBCs Africa Lives season of programming, and with the global Make Poverty History campaign, for which writer Curtis was a prominent campaigner. As such, it was also shown in South Africa on the same day as its UK and US premieres. Curtis was betterknown as a writer of romantic comedy films such as Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill and Love Actually the latter of which he also directed and had featured Nighy. Although The Girl in the Caf does contain some of his trademark comedy elements, it is generally more serious in tone and attempts to highlight the issues of poverty and fair trade.On BBC One, the programme gained an audience of 5.5 million, ashare of the total television audience watching over its ninetyminute duration, winning its timeslot. The opinions, however, were divided. ........

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