Tom Sharpe

Nacimiento : 1928-03-30, Holloway, London, England, UK

Muerte : 2013-06-06

Películas

Nobody's Perfect!
Anglais
Gérard es mecánico, y se ha hartado de ser un "buenazo". Lo deja todo y se escapa a un pequeño pueblo cerca de Gâtinais, donde se hará cargo de un garaje. Enfrente del garaje hay un albergue con mucho encanto, gestionado por Barbara: una mujer desconcertante, misteriosa, imprevisible y maravillosa. El encuentro entre los dos hará saltar chispas...
Sexes faibles!
Novel
The La Chesnays live in a castle threatened with destruction to accommodate a TGV line. While Gilles, the husband, agrees to receive compensation, his wife, Maud, fights with the other villagers so that the project does not materialize.
Wilt
Novel
Comedia que adapta la popular novela de Tom Sharpe. Henry Wilt (Griff Rhys Jones) es un tímido profesor de un conflictivo instituto de formación profesional a punto de ser adquirido por los japoneses. En una obra de construcción de al lado del centro escolar, aparece un cuerpo del que se sospecha que es la mujer del propio Wilt, quien se convertirá en el principal inculpado del asesinato.
Blott on the Landscape
Writer
Bawdy adaption of Tom Sharpe's comic tale. A landowning MP attempts to have a motorway built through the grounds of his wife's ancestral home.
She Fell Among Thieves
Screenplay
While on a Pyrenees vacation in 1922, upright English gentleman Richard Chandos (Malcolm McDowell, A Clockwork Orange, Heroes) encounters the villainous Vanity Fair (Eileen Atkins, Cold Mountain). Mistress of the turreted Chateau Jezreel and leader of a motley band of criminals, she will inherit millions if she can force her stepdaughter to marry. Pitting his wits against this formidable adversary, Chandos determines to rescue the beautiful young woman. But Vanity Fair keeps one step ahead of him, a trick forever up her sleeve and murder in her heart.