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Once upon a time in mildenhall​

Status: Treatment

Genre: A rock'n Roll Road-Movie
Based on an idea by: Danny Hiller
Story by: Stewart Copeland and Danny Hiller
Composer - Executive producer: Stewart Copeland
Writer/Director/Producer: Danny Hiller
Associate Producer: Robert Platt-Higgins
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Plot Summary: 
Peggy Sue, a young English Country girl working in a chicken factory in Suffolk, dreams of all things Americana.  ​Then one day, her dreams come true.  
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Parallel films: ‘The Wizard of Oz’ meets ‘Saturday Night Fever’
Settings:  Suffolk England, Los Angeles USA

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TWO WHITE SHIRTS
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Status: Script

Genre: ‘A Family Saga’  
Period: 1930s/1920s
Writer/director: Danny Hiller
Cinematographer: Kit Fraser

Executive Producer: Mark Wooding
Setting: Ireland: Dún Laoghaire - London: Kentish Town, Period:1930s/1990s
                                                                                        
Plot Summary:
The O’Reilly’s are a complicated family. Young Donagh finds out just how complicated when he starts to have suspicions about who his real father might be. Based on real events in the writer’s own life ‘TWO WHITE SHIRTS’ is an affectionate and moving look at life in an extended Irish family who live their lives between Dublin and London.
The story is told through two parallel timelines – with the action taking place in both London and Dublin from the 1920s to the 1990s, where finally Donagh decides to pursue the truth about his family with the aid of DNA tests. Yet still some secrets are taken to the grave.
 
Parallel films: ‘The Ballroom of Romance’ meets ‘Brooklyn’ 

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