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* DownerEnding: YMMV on the extent, but it's certainly a very ''melancholy'' ending. All the children have, in their own ways, fairly bleak lives and their parents all have their issues as well. And nothing is any better for them by the end.
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* DownerEnding: YMMV on the extent, but it's certainly a very ''melancholy'' ending. All the children have, in their own ways, fairly bleak lives and their parents all have their issues as well. And nothing is any better for them by the end. We don't even get told if Debbie's mother managed to tell Tim his dad was there.
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* IdenticalGrandson: The parents in the final scene are played by the same actors as the children.
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* KidsAreCruel: Jaye displays this the most, though the 2nd Wise Man's incessant teasing of Adrian could also qualify.
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* KidsAreCruel: Jaye displays this the most, though the 2nd Wise Man's incessant teasing of Adrian could also qualify. As could Christian, whose behaviour is more disturbing still...
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* AdultFear: A humourous example: the school gym (where the nativity takes place) is apparently practically a death-trap. Though thankfully no one is injured.
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* {{Mondegreen}}: Zoe thinks the lyrics to "Silent Night" include the line "Round John Verger" instead of "Round yon virgin". She convinces Debbie to sing the wrong lyrics during the play.
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* {{Mondegreen}}: MondegreenGag: Zoe thinks the lyrics to "Silent Night" include the line "Round John Verger" instead of "Round yon virgin". She convinces Debbie to sing the wrong lyrics during the play.
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* NotSoDifferent: The kids and their parents, to the point that they're each played by the same actors.
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* BrokenPedestal: Tim spends the entire film talking about how he wants to impress his dad...then ends up in tears when not only is his father not there, but[[spoiler: his mother is at the show with another man. He doesn't realise his parents are divorced. Fortunately, his father is stood at the back, and later asks Tim's teacher to tell him that he saw the whole thing and that he was great.]]. Jaye also becomes this to both Dawn and Shamima.
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* BrokenPedestal: Tim spends the entire film talking about how he wants to impress his dad...then ends up in tears when not only is his father not there, but[[spoiler: but his mother is at the show with another man. He doesn't realise his parents are divorced. Fortunately, his father is was stood at the back, and later asks Tim's teacher Debbie's mother to tell him that he saw the whole thing and that he was great.]]. Jaye also becomes this to both Dawn and Shamima.
* DaddyDidntShow: ZigZaggedTrope. Tim is devastated when it looks like his father didn't show up. In the epilogue it turns out that his father ''did'' come but hid at the back, presumably to avoid his ex-wife.
* HonoraryUncle: Clive's dad mentions that the "uncle" he's been fawning over is actually "an old college friend of my wife's". Jaye's mother assumes this means an ex-boyfriend.
* INeedAFreakingDrink: Mrs Humphries is implied to have started drinking after Jaye crashes the play as a second Mary. There's a clinking of a glass and Clive saying "My dad drinks that!"
* {{Mondegreen}}: Zoe thinks the lyrics to "Silent Night" include the line "Round John Verger" instead of "Round yon virgin". She convinces Debbie to sing the wrong lyrics during the play.
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* PottyFailure: Andrew experiences this during the play, after several minutes of PottyDance. Miss Humphries gently escorts him off the stage to change his trousers.
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* PottyFailure: Andrew experiences this during the play, after several minutes of PottyDance. Miss Mrs Humphries gently escorts him off the stage to change his trousers.
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* TheUnseen: The children's teachers are only ever heard and their POV is used whenever they're in the room.
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* TheUnseen: The TheVoice: Mrs Humphries, the children's teachers are only ever heard and their POV teacher, is used whenever they're in never seen on-screen even during the room.epilogue with the parents. The camera rises above the children to simulate her POV.
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* PottyFailure: Andrew experiences this during the play, after several minutes of PottyDance. Miss Humphries gently escorts him off the stage to change his trousers.
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* CloudCuckoolander: Ian Rotherham (Herod) is obessed with ''Series/AQuestionOfSport'' and spends almost all of his screentime acting out episodes of the show while the other kids are preparing for the play.
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* RunningAwayToCry: Adrian, Shamima and Christian all do this at some point. Tim probably ''would'' if he wasn't supposed to be narrating the nativity at the time...
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* RunningAwayToCry: Adrian, Shamima and Christian all do this at some point. Tim probably ''would'' if he wasn't supposed to be narrating the nativity at the time...time.
* SchoolPlay: The traditional British Nativity play and all the behind the scenes drama.
* SchoolPlay: The traditional British Nativity play and all the behind the scenes drama.
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* TeamMom: Debbie is probably the most responsible of all the children. Unfortunately, she's still just a 7=year-old...
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* TeamMom: Debbie is probably the most responsible of all the children. Unfortunately, she's still just a 7=year-old...7 year-old.
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* TheBully: Jaye and Christian (the Innkeeper).
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* TheBully: Jaye Jaye, the 2nd wise man, and Christian (the Innkeeper).
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Just watched this, he saw his mother at the show with another man, he was upset that he couldn't see his father at all.
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* BrokenPedestal: Tim spends the entire film talking about how he wants to impress his dad...then ends up in tears [[spoiler:after seeing when not only is his father not there, but[[spoiler: his mother is at the show with another woman, not realising man. He doesn't realise his parents are divorced]].divorced. Fortunately, his father is stood at the back, and later asks Tim's teacher to tell him that he saw the whole thing and that he was great.]]. Jaye also becomes this to both Dawn and Shamima.
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* BrickJoke: While explaining to Dawn what happens during an actual birth Zoe (who's clearly drawing her information from watching a cow give birth on her Dad's farm) tells her that "you moo a lot". Later, during the play, when Dawn places the baby Jesus in the manger she lets out a quiet "moo".
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* BrickJoke: While explaining to Dawn Debbie what happens during an actual birth Zoe (who's clearly drawing her information from watching a cow give birth on her Dad's farm) tells her that "you moo a lot". Later, during the play, when Dawn Debbie places the baby Jesus in the manger she lets out a quiet "moo".
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''The Flint Street Nativity'' is a British TV film directed by Marcus Mortimer which was shown on Creator/ITV on 22 December 1999. It was eventually made into a stage play in 2006.
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''The Flint Street Nativity'' is a British TV film directed by Marcus Mortimer which was shown on Creator/ITV Creator/{{ITV}} on 22 December 1999. It was eventually made into a stage play in 2006.
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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 and later reworked into a stage play in 2006.
The film is set in the fictitious inner city Flint Street Primary School. It focuses on the seven and eight-year-old pupils in the 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 film is set in the fictitious inner city Flint Street Primary School. It focuses on the seven and eight-year-old pupils in the 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.
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''The Flint Street Nativity'' is a 1999 British television comedy TV 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 Mortimer which was broadcast by ITV shown on Creator/ITV on 22 December 1999 and later reworked 1999. It was eventually made into a stage play in 2006.
Thefilm is set in the fictitious inner city students of Flint Street Primary School. It focuses School are preparing to put on the seven a Nativity play. Of course, with this being a comedy film and eight-year-old pupils in the 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.
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* BrokenPedastal: Tim spends the entire film talking about how he wants to impress his dad...then ends up in tears [[spoiler:after seeing his father at the show with another woman, not realising his parents are divorced]]. Jaye also becomes this to both Dawn and Shamima.
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* BrokenPedastal: BrokenPedestal: Tim spends the entire film talking about how he wants to impress his dad...then ends up in tears [[spoiler:after seeing his father at the show with another woman, not realising his parents are divorced]]. Jaye also becomes this to both Dawn and Shamima.
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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 and later reworked into a stage play in 2006.
The film is set in the fictitious inner city Flint Street Primary School. It focuses on the seven and eight-year-old pupils in the 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.
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!! This film provides examples of:
* AbhorrentAdmirer: Christian seems to be this to Debbie.
* AbusiveParents: Not ''physically'' but Adrian (who has a lisp) mentions several times that he ''can't'' be in the "special unit" because his parents have told him not to be - going so far as to give himself a panic attack because of his lisp - and when we finally meet his father, he's very dismissive of Adrian's brother (who ''is'' in the special unit) who is apparently dyslexic.
* AdultFear: A humourous example: the school gym (where the nativity takes place) is apparently practically a death-trap. Though thankfully no one is injured.
* AdultsAreUseless: Not necessarily ''useless'' but the running theme of the film is that none of the children have necessarily happy or even healthy home lives. When we meet the parents at the end, it's clear most of the children have been mirroring the worst of their behaviours.
* BadBadActing: The nativity itself. It's just as wooden, stilted and under-rehearsed as an actual nativity by seven-year-olds.
* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Averted. Jaye (Angel Gabriel) is stated a few times to be prettier than Debbie (Mary), but she's an obnoxious bully.
* BerserkButton: For Adrian, saying he's in the special unit.
* BlatantLies: Several times, as befitting a cast of small children. In the first five minutes, Clive (the Star) indicates that someone else is responsible for putting a clay model of Jesus in the iguana cage...even when everyone else says it was him.
* BreakTheCutie: Some of the children (and parents) appear to have already experienced elements of this. During the film, Tim (the Narrator) and Adrian each go through this.
* BrokenPedastal: Tim spends the entire film talking about how he wants to impress his dad...then ends up in tears [[spoiler:after seeing his father at the show with another woman, not realising his parents are divorced]]. Jaye also becomes this to both Dawn and Shamima.
* TheBully: Jaye and Christian (the Innkeeper).
* ButtMonkey: Clive to a certain extent.
* ChekhovsGun: Several, including the shepherds' torch, Michael Owen the iguana, and the broken plug sockets.
* ChildrenAreInnocent: Zig-zagged. The children spend most of the time discussing, recreating and repeating things they've witnessed at home or on TV - most of which absolutely ''isn't'' innocent - but the children themselves are too innocent to truly understand the implications.
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Invoked with Shamima (2nd Angel). She uses racial slurs against her (absent) classmate and her neighbours, but it's made clear she's merely repeating the language used by her family.
* DownerEnding: YMMV on the extent, but it's certainly a very ''melancholy'' ending. All the children have, in their own ways, fairly bleak lives and their parents all have their issues as well. And nothing is any better for them by the end.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Clive's obsession with his "uncle" and the space suit.
* HalfHeartedHenchman: Shamima and Dawn (1st Wise Man) act as this to Jaye [[spoiler:until they get fed up and decide to just be friends with each other]].
* HeelRealisation: Jaye seems to be having one by the end.
* HiddenDepths: Christian first seems to be a bully who rips out a classmate's tooth when he's told that he'll get money for it...but ultimately, he's just got a crush on Debbie and wanted ''her'' to get the money.
* ImplausibleDeniability: Again, the very beginning with Clive denying he put the clay Jesus in with the iguana.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: All the kids have moments of this.
* LargeHam: All the kids have their moments, though Ian (Herod) takes the cake.
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Averted.
* KarmaHoudini: As far as we know, the 2nd Wise Man never faces any consequences for daring people to do things that arguably led to the catastrophe at the end of the nativity.
* KidsAreCruel: Jaye displays this the most, though the 2nd Wise Man's incessant teasing of Adrian could also qualify.
* MoodWhiplash: Andrew (the Donkey)'s attempts to get Adrian to go back inside out of the rain flips very quickly between comedy and tearjerker as it's revealed that [[spoiler:Andrew believes the reason you shouldn't make people cry is because they'll self-harm, referencing his ''mother''.]]
* NotSoDifferent: The kids and their parents, to the point that they're each played by the same actors.
* OhCrap: Some of the kids, especially Debbie and Tim, display this reaction whenever something goes wrong during the nativity.
* ParentalAbandonment: A running theme - not necessarily "abandonment" but it's clear that the parents aren't there for their children as much as they should be.
* RedOniBlueOni: Jaye and Debbie
* RunningAwayToCry: Adrian, Shamima and Christian all do this at some point. Tim probably ''would'' if he wasn't supposed to be narrating the nativity at the time...
* ShoutOut: Plenty with regards to sport: aside from the iguana being named Michael Owen, Ian's favourite activity is recreating episodes of Question Of Sport and name-dropping sports stars.
* SmallSecludedWorld: The film takes place in three rooms of a primary school in a small neighbourhood.
* TeamMom: Debbie is probably the most responsible of all the children. Unfortunately, she's still just a 7=year-old...
* TitleDrop: The nativity performance begins with one.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehaviour: All the children to some extent.
* TrueCompanions: Zig-zagged. The children fight and argue and pick on each other a lot, but it's clear that most of them are quite good friends.
* TheUnseen: The children's teachers are only ever heard and their POV is used whenever they're in the room.
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: The kids all attempt to come off as this but fail miserably. Zoe (2nd Shepherd) comes the closest, but she still gets a lot wrong.
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The film is set in the fictitious inner city Flint Street Primary School. It focuses on the seven and eight-year-old pupils in the 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.
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!! This film provides examples of:
* AbhorrentAdmirer: Christian seems to be this to Debbie.
* AbusiveParents: Not ''physically'' but Adrian (who has a lisp) mentions several times that he ''can't'' be in the "special unit" because his parents have told him not to be - going so far as to give himself a panic attack because of his lisp - and when we finally meet his father, he's very dismissive of Adrian's brother (who ''is'' in the special unit) who is apparently dyslexic.
* AdultFear: A humourous example: the school gym (where the nativity takes place) is apparently practically a death-trap. Though thankfully no one is injured.
* AdultsAreUseless: Not necessarily ''useless'' but the running theme of the film is that none of the children have necessarily happy or even healthy home lives. When we meet the parents at the end, it's clear most of the children have been mirroring the worst of their behaviours.
* BadBadActing: The nativity itself. It's just as wooden, stilted and under-rehearsed as an actual nativity by seven-year-olds.
* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Averted. Jaye (Angel Gabriel) is stated a few times to be prettier than Debbie (Mary), but she's an obnoxious bully.
* BerserkButton: For Adrian, saying he's in the special unit.
* BlatantLies: Several times, as befitting a cast of small children. In the first five minutes, Clive (the Star) indicates that someone else is responsible for putting a clay model of Jesus in the iguana cage...even when everyone else says it was him.
* BreakTheCutie: Some of the children (and parents) appear to have already experienced elements of this. During the film, Tim (the Narrator) and Adrian each go through this.
* BrokenPedastal: Tim spends the entire film talking about how he wants to impress his dad...then ends up in tears [[spoiler:after seeing his father at the show with another woman, not realising his parents are divorced]]. Jaye also becomes this to both Dawn and Shamima.
* TheBully: Jaye and Christian (the Innkeeper).
* ButtMonkey: Clive to a certain extent.
* ChekhovsGun: Several, including the shepherds' torch, Michael Owen the iguana, and the broken plug sockets.
* ChildrenAreInnocent: Zig-zagged. The children spend most of the time discussing, recreating and repeating things they've witnessed at home or on TV - most of which absolutely ''isn't'' innocent - but the children themselves are too innocent to truly understand the implications.
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Invoked with Shamima (2nd Angel). She uses racial slurs against her (absent) classmate and her neighbours, but it's made clear she's merely repeating the language used by her family.
* DownerEnding: YMMV on the extent, but it's certainly a very ''melancholy'' ending. All the children have, in their own ways, fairly bleak lives and their parents all have their issues as well. And nothing is any better for them by the end.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Clive's obsession with his "uncle" and the space suit.
* HalfHeartedHenchman: Shamima and Dawn (1st Wise Man) act as this to Jaye [[spoiler:until they get fed up and decide to just be friends with each other]].
* HeelRealisation: Jaye seems to be having one by the end.
* HiddenDepths: Christian first seems to be a bully who rips out a classmate's tooth when he's told that he'll get money for it...but ultimately, he's just got a crush on Debbie and wanted ''her'' to get the money.
* ImplausibleDeniability: Again, the very beginning with Clive denying he put the clay Jesus in with the iguana.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: All the kids have moments of this.
* LargeHam: All the kids have their moments, though Ian (Herod) takes the cake.
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Averted.
* KarmaHoudini: As far as we know, the 2nd Wise Man never faces any consequences for daring people to do things that arguably led to the catastrophe at the end of the nativity.
* KidsAreCruel: Jaye displays this the most, though the 2nd Wise Man's incessant teasing of Adrian could also qualify.
* MoodWhiplash: Andrew (the Donkey)'s attempts to get Adrian to go back inside out of the rain flips very quickly between comedy and tearjerker as it's revealed that [[spoiler:Andrew believes the reason you shouldn't make people cry is because they'll self-harm, referencing his ''mother''.]]
* NotSoDifferent: The kids and their parents, to the point that they're each played by the same actors.
* OhCrap: Some of the kids, especially Debbie and Tim, display this reaction whenever something goes wrong during the nativity.
* ParentalAbandonment: A running theme - not necessarily "abandonment" but it's clear that the parents aren't there for their children as much as they should be.
* RedOniBlueOni: Jaye and Debbie
* RunningAwayToCry: Adrian, Shamima and Christian all do this at some point. Tim probably ''would'' if he wasn't supposed to be narrating the nativity at the time...
* ShoutOut: Plenty with regards to sport: aside from the iguana being named Michael Owen, Ian's favourite activity is recreating episodes of Question Of Sport and name-dropping sports stars.
* SmallSecludedWorld: The film takes place in three rooms of a primary school in a small neighbourhood.
* TeamMom: Debbie is probably the most responsible of all the children. Unfortunately, she's still just a 7=year-old...
* TitleDrop: The nativity performance begins with one.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehaviour: All the children to some extent.
* TrueCompanions: Zig-zagged. The children fight and argue and pick on each other a lot, but it's clear that most of them are quite good friends.
* TheUnseen: The children's teachers are only ever heard and their POV is used whenever they're in the room.
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: The kids all attempt to come off as this but fail miserably. Zoe (2nd Shepherd) comes the closest, but she still gets a lot wrong.
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