Madeleine Moffat

1995년 가짜 외계인 해부 영상을 유포해 전 세계를 상대로 사기극을 벌였던 두 영국인의 이야기를 코믹하게 재구성한 작품. 엘비스 관련 상품을 영국으로 들여와 비싸게 팔기 위해 미국으로 건너간 레이와 게리는 UFO 관련사건들 중 가장 유명한 1940년대의 로스웰 사건과 관련된 필름을 우연히 발견하고 그것을 대신 구입한다. 하지만 너무 오래된 필름이라 팔기 위해서는 복원이 필요하다고 판단하고, 스스로 외계인 해부 영상을 제작하기에 이르는데... 영국 BBC의 '팝 아이돌'의 진행자로 유명한 데클란 도넬리와 안트 맥파틴 콤비가 레이, 게리 역을 맡아 열연했다.

Like many women active during the miners' strike, May Murton (Charlie Hardwick) has been left to clean up the mess. The closure of the pit, a failed marriage and the community’s disintegration have shattered both her personal and political beliefs. Her teenage children (Darren Bell and Katja Roberts) are out of control. Her estranged husband (Brian Hogg) has taken up residence in the allotments. At a dance, the night before the Durham Miners’ Gala, May meets Roy Cotton (Bill Speed) the recently arrived manager of an open cast mine.

In the 1830's in northern England, Riah Millican, a widow with three children, takes a job as housekeeper to a reclusive former teacher, Percival Miller. Miller makes Riah the gift of a black velvet gown, and even educates her children. But when Riah discovers the reason behind Miller's gifts, she vows to leave his house, but Miller has a hold on her, even after his death, when he leaves his house to her on the condition that she never marry. Riah's daughter, Biddy, grows up and becomes a laundress in a large house where her education keeps her from fitting in and makes her a target. But it also catches the eye of a son of the house, and with Miller's legacies, Biddy may yet find her way to happiness.

In northern England around 1900, the worker John O'Brien lives near poverty in a small house in the worker's district. He falls in love with Mary, the teacher of his highly intelligent younger sister Kathy and daughter of a rich family. Their love is doomed by the social difference, but the vigorous Mary refuses to allow outer circumstances destroying their love.