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Can You Name This Film You can remember the plot briefly but can't recollect the films name?


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Old 18-04-2008, 03:42 PM
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Anyone remember a series about a man who loses his job and pretends to still go to work every morning without telling his wife the circumstances. In the back of my mind am thinking might be the excellent Denham Elliot or Ralph Bates who was sadly taken from us early.D

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Could this be WORK with Jim Broadbent?
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There are several films with that plot, and a Peter McDougall play with Billy Connolly called Elephants graveyard. But a tv series ? Alas, one does not spring tae mind sorry.
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No its not WORK, it was earlier than that and on ITV or BBC. It was an established actor who you all will know but will have to ponder on it.Would say 80s.
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Anyone remember a series about a man who loses his job and pretends to still go to work every morning without telling his wife the circumstances. In the back of my mind am thinking might be the excellent Denham Elliot or Ralph Bates who was sadly taken from us early.D
I don't know if this helps but I can remember a TV series about (I think) a newspaper or advertising agency?? in which a man is made redundant in the first episode and continues to pretend go to work. The twist was revealed at the end of the episode when it turned out that his wife knew all along that he was redundant as the man's boss had told her at the time it happened. The rest of the series was about others working in the company.
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Old 21-04-2008, 08:29 AM
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Could be that Brian,I just cannot remember the actor, I also considered Richard Briers, but not sure.
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i only remember "the full monty" where tom wilkinson pretends just that to his wife....
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Didn`t Jim Broadbent play a similar role in one episode of the 1st series of Jimmy Mcgoverns The Street
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Old 22-04-2008, 09:48 AM
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At a guess this would have been made circa 81-88, The man in question worked in a office (although according to tv adverts everyone works in an office haha), and lived in a quiet village with his wife.Agewise he would be late fifties and I can remember he would park the car and eat his sandwiches on a bench in the village out of the way.I think was about 4 episodes, was someone well-known, but it just eludes me at the mo.
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did it have Michael Gambon in it?
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Lame Ducks? Guy gives up work and becomes a bit of a hermit, wife hires detective to track him down. Would have been in mid-80s,Lorraine Chase was in itbut don't know who else
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There is the Breadwinner with Michael Gambon from 82 but no plot synopsis, I wonder if is that?.
No the guy loses not leaves his job.
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