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Nativity!

This Christmas, elementary school teacher Paul Maddens decides to take on the biggest challenge of his life - staging his school's musical production of the Nativity. Competing against his arch rival at the local private school for the coveted best-reviewed show in town, the stakes are raised when a potential visit from Paul's ex-girlfriend Jennifer, a Hollywood producer, sends everyone involved into a festive frenzy.

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  • "This Christmas, elementary school teacher Paul Maddens decides to take on the biggest challenge of his life - staging his school's musical production of the Nativity. Competing against his arch rival at the local private school for the coveted best-reviewed show in town, the stakes are raised when a potential visit from Paul's ex-girlfriend Jennifer, a Hollywood producer, sends everyone involved into a festive frenzy."@en
  • "This Christmas, elementary school teacher Paul Maddens decides to take on the biggest challenge of his life - staging his school's musical production of the Nativity. Competing against his archrival at the local private school for the coveted best-reviewed show in town, the stakes are raised when a potential visit from Paul's ex-girlfriend Jennifer, a Hollywood producer, sends everyone involved into a festive frenzy."@en
  • "Seasonal, semi-improvised British comedy starring Martin Freeman and Ashley Jensen. Shabby, under-achieving primary school teacher Mr Maddens (Freeman) works at a school that competes annually with a local private school for the best production of the Christmas nativity play. Tired of always playing second fiddle to his arch rival, Gordon Shakespeare (Jason Watkins), Maddens idly concocts a white lie centred around his ex-girlfriend, Hollywood producer Jennifer (Jensen), in which he boasts that she is coming to see his play with a view to turning it into a film. What he omits to mention is that he and she have not spoken to one another for years. Now, with the expectations and burning ambitions of parents and pupils running high, can he possibly turn his elaborate fiction into reality in time to make everyone's Christmas wishes come true?"
  • "Seasonal, semi-improvised British comedy starring Martin Freeman and Ashley Jensen. Shabby, under-achieving primary school teacher Mr Maddens (Freeman) works at a school that competes annually with a local private school for the best production of the Christmas nativity play. Tired of always playing second fiddle to his arch rival, Gordon Shakespeare (Jason Watkins), Maddens idly concocts a white lie centred around his ex-girlfriend, Hollywood producer Jennifer (Jensen), in which he boasts that she is coming to see his play with a view to turning it into a film. What he omits to mention is that he and she have not spoken to one another for years. Now, with the expectations and burning ambitions of parents and pupils running high, can he possibly turn his elaborate fiction into reality in time to make everyone's Christmas wishes come true?"@en
  • "A heart-warming and hilarious tale of the true meaning of Christmas, Nativity! stars Martin Freeman (The Office, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) and Ashley Jensen (Extras, Ugly Betty). Having given up his career as a frustrated, under-achieving actor, Mr Maddens (Freeman) has become a frustrated, under-achieving primary school teacher. Each Christmas, his school and that of his long-time adversary, Gordon Shakespeare (Jason Watkins: Being Human) compete for a 5-star review of their respective nativity plays. Time after time, Shakespeare and his privileged Oakmoor students thrash the underdogs at St Bernadette's. Maddens is resigned to this. His kids are hopeless and losing is the story of his life. But when Maddens makes an idle boast that St Bernadette's has attracted the attention of Hollywood, he finds himself, and his school, tasked with the impossible. Not only is he expected to put on a barnstorming Xmas Xtravaganza, but a hotshot Hollywood producer needs to attend! Overnight, Maddens finds himself at the centre of a perfect storm comprising the Mayor (Ricky Tomlinson: The Royle Family), the media, a posse of pushy parents, and an army of pint-sized potential Marys and Josephs. All St Bernadette's is floating on a cloud of stardust and the children are bursting with Christmas spirit. But can Maddens possibly bring Hollywood to Coventry and make their dreams come true or will his tangle of lies finally catch him out?"
  • "This Christmas, elementary school teacher Paul Maddens decides to take on the biggest challenge of his life - staging his school's musical production of the Nativity. Competing against his archrival at the local private school for the coveted best-reviewed show in town, the stakes are raised when a potential visit from Paul's ex-girlfriend Jennifer, a Hollywood Producer, sends everyone involved into a festive frenzy."
  • "This Christmas, elementary school teacher Paul Maddens decides to take on the biggest challenge of his life - staging his school's musical production of the Nativity. Competing against his archrival at the local private school for the coveted best-reviewed show in town, the stakes are raised when a potential visit from Paul's ex-girlfriend Jennifer, a Hollywood Producer, sends everyone involved into a festive frenzy."@en
  • "Each Christmas Mr. Maddens' and Mr. Shakespeare's primary school classes compete to outdo each others nativity plays, and time after time, Maddens' pupils are the losers. But when Maddens makes an idle boast that his school has attracted the attention of Hollywood, he finds himself and his pupils tasked with the impossible. Suddenly the town is abuzz with excitement - but can Maddens possibly bring Hollywood to Coventry and make their dreams come true?"@en

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  • "Drama"
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  • "Children's films"
  • "Motion pictures"@en
  • "Christmas films"
  • "Christmas films"@en
  • "Comedy films"@en
  • "Juvenile works"@en
  • "Feature films"
  • "Feature films"@en
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Video recordings for the hearing impaired"@en
  • "Feature : Comedy"

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  • "nativity!"
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