The phantom of the Open, Sony Pictures Classics, BFI, BBC Film and Ingenious Media present ; a Water & Power Productions and Baby Cow production ; screenplay by Simon Farnaby ; produced by Kate Glover, Nichola Martin, Tom Miller ; directed by Craig Roberts
Type
Label
The phantom of the Open, Sony Pictures Classics, BFI, BBC Film and Ingenious Media present ; a Water & Power Productions and Baby Cow production ; screenplay by Simon Farnaby ; produced by Kate Glover, Nichola Martin, Tom Miller ; directed by Craig Roberts
Language
eng
Characteristic
videorecording
Intended audience
MPA rating: PG-13; for some strong language and smoking
Main title
The phantom of the Open
Responsibility statement
Sony Pictures Classics, BFI, BBC Film and Ingenious Media present ; a Water & Power Productions and Baby Cow production ; screenplay by Simon Farnaby ; produced by Kate Glover, Nichola Martin, Tom Miller ; directed by Craig Roberts
Runtime
106
Summary
Maurice Flitcroft, a dreamer and unrelenting optimist, managed to gain entry to The British Open Golf Championship Qualifying in 1976 and subsequently shot the worst round in Open history, becoming a folk hero in the process
Technique
live action
Classification
Contributor
- British Film Institute
- Davies, Jake, 1993-
- Rylance, Mark
- Glover, Kate, (Producer)
- Lees, Christian
- Hawkins, Sally, 1976-
- Farnaby, Simon
- Myers, Johann
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm)
- Miller, Tom, (Producer)
- Martin, Nichola
- Murray, Scott
- Ifans, Rhys, 1967-
- Roberts, Craig, 1991-
- Jones, Mark Lewis
- BBC Films
- Sony Pictures Classics (Firm)
- Lees, Jonah
- Water & Power Productions
- Ingenious Media
- Baby Cow Productions
Genre
Subject
- Comedy films
- British Open (Golf tournament) -- Drama
- DVD-Video discs.
- Flitcroft, Maurice -- Drama
- Descriptive video service (DVS)
- Sports films
- Film adaptations
- Biographical films
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Feature films
- Video recordings for people with visual disabilities
- Golfers -- Great Britain -- Drama
- Fiction films
Content
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Incoming Resources
- Has instance1
Outgoing Resources
- Classification1
- Contributor21
- British Film Institute
- Davies, Jake, 1993-
- Rylance, Mark
- Glover, Kate, (Producer)
- Lees, Christian
- Hawkins, Sally, 1976-
- Farnaby, Simon
- Myers, Johann
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm)
- Miller, Tom, (Producer)
- Martin, Nichola
- Murray, Scott
- Ifans, Rhys, 1967-
- Roberts, Craig, 1991-
- Jones, Mark Lewis
- BBC Films
- Sony Pictures Classics (Firm)
- Lees, Jonah
- Water & Power Productions
- Ingenious Media
- Baby Cow Productions
- Genre10
- Subject13
- Comedy films
- British Open (Golf tournament) -- Drama
- DVD-Video discs.
- Flitcroft, Maurice -- Drama
- Descriptive video service (DVS)
- Sports films
- Film adaptations
- Biographical films
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Feature films
- Video recordings for people with visual disabilities
- Golfers -- Great Britain -- Drama
- Fiction films
- Content1
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- Actor8
- resource.filmdirector1
- resource.filmproducer3
- Presenter4
- resource.productioncompany2
- Publisher1
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