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No Holds Bard (DVD) (*)

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Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
English ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2.4 )

Running Time:
58 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2009 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Brian Kelly

Written By:
Simon Carlyle
Gregor Sharp

Actors:
Tony Curran ..... Stevie Kerr
Ron Donachie ..... Boyd Pickford
Vincent Franklin ..... Sarah Rutherford
Laura Fraser ..... Robert Laughlin
Greg Hemphill ..... Struan Robertson
Paul Higgins ..... Isobel
Ashley Jensen ..... William Auld
Gerard Kelly ..... Cronie Cameron
Ford Kiernan ..... Miekel
Denis Lawson ..... Cronie McKay
Forbes Masson ..... Paula Pickford
Felicity Montagu ..... Sheila Buchanan
Katy Murphy ..... Gibby 'Fingers' McPherson
Bill Paterson ..... Granny Braid
Barbara Rafferty
Anneika Rose
Debbie Welsh

Synopsis:

No Holds Bard follows the lives of five people as they prepare to vie for the 2009 Cup O' Kindness, the trophy awarded to the grand champion in recitation of the works of Robert Burns. Held in Alloway, the birthplace of Burns himself, this prestigious competition is the centrepiece of the annual celebrations devoted to the Bard's immortal memory. And this year it may prove memorable for all the wrong reasons. Amongst the competitors are Hayley Braid a 12 year-old with a determined mum, Isobel (Ashley Jensen) and a batty granny (Barbara Rafferty); Struan Robertson (Paul Higgins), the official representative of the Dumfries Burns Society, headed by tyrannical president Miekel McMiekel (Denis Lawson) with bickering cohorts Cronie Cameron (Ford Kiernan) and Cronie McKay (Forbes Masson); the enthusiastic Paula Pickford (Felicity Montagu), recently settled in Scotland with her husband Boyd (Vincent Franklin); Robert Lauchlan (Greg Hemphill), a gardener with a difference at the Burns Cottage tourist attraction; and Stevie Kerr (Tony Curran), prison inmate and protégé of rehabilitation therapist Sarah Rutherford (Laura Fraser). The mocumentary captures the ups and downs of each participant's progress as the pressure intensifies, the poems are recited and the champion is crowned.

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 26 February, 2010.

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