The Flint Street Nativity
| The Flint Street Nativity | |
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| Genre | Comedy |
| Written by | Tim Firth |
| Directed by | Marcus Mortimer |
| Starring |
Frank Skinner Dervla Kirwan Neil Morrissey Jane Horrocks John Thomson Stephen Tompkinson Ralf Little |
| Theme music composer | Debbie Wiseman |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
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| Producer(s) |
Dewi Griffiths Peter Elias Jones Paul Spencer |
| Editor(s) | Mike Hopkins |
| Running time | 75 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Antena Productions Yorkshire Television |
| Distributor | IMC Vision |
| Release | |
| Original network | ITV |
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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 on 22 December 1999.
The film is set in the fictitious inner city Flint Street Primary School, on the Welsh-Cheshire borders. It focuses on the seven- and eight-year-old pupils in that evening's sole performance of the school nativity play, from the pre-performance classroom preparations to the final stage performance, which culminates in calamity.
There are inevitable mishaps, misunderstandings, young egos, fears of failure and fallings out. The children's characters eventually evolve into mirror images of their parents when the actors all appear as their parents (the play's audience) at the post-show gathering.
The story is based on real events, collected over ten years from members of Tim Firth's family and friends who were teachers. Flint Street Primary School is modelled on Stockton Heath Primary School, where Firth attended and his mother taught.
The film was shot in Lansdowne Primary School in Canton, Cardiff. An oversize set was used to make the actors' characters more believable. The actresses wore swimsuits three sizes too small to flatten their adult body parts.
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