Ann Scott-Jones

Local Hero (1983)

An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery. But things don't go as expected.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Bill Forsyth
CAST:  Burt Lancaster  •  Peter Riegert  •  Fulton Mackay  •  Denis Lawson

An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery. But things don't go as expected.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Bill Forsyth
CAST:  Burt Lancaster  •  Peter Riegert  •  Fulton Mackay  •  Denis Lawson

God Help the Girl (2014)

Eve is a catastrophe—low on self-esteem but high on fantasy, especially when it comes to music. Over the course of one Glasgow summer, she meets two similarly rootless souls: posh Cass and fastidious James, and together they form a group.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Stuart Murdoch
CAST:  Emily Browning  •  Olly Alexander  •  Hannah Murray  •  Pierre Boulanger

Eve is a catastrophe—low on self-esteem but high on fantasy, especially when it comes to music. Over the course of one Glasgow summer, she meets two similarly rootless souls: posh Cass and fastidious James, and together they form a group.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Stuart Murdoch
CAST:  Emily Browning  •  Olly Alexander  •  Hannah Murray  •  Pierre Boulanger

Soft Top Hard Shoulder (1993)

Eight years ago, Gavin, artistic son of an Scots/Italian ice-cream dynasty, turned his back on Glasgow and moved south to London to make his name illustrating children's books. Now, frustrated and broke, his Uncle Sal appears with an offer. Gavin's father has sold ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Stefan Schwartz
CAST:  Peter Capaldi  •  Richard Wilson  •  Jeremy Northam  •  Frances Barber

Eight years ago, Gavin, artistic son of an Scots/Italian ice-cream dynasty, turned his back on Glasgow and moved south to London to make his name illustrating children's books. Now, frustrated and broke, his Uncle Sal appears with an offer. Gavin's father has sold ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Stefan Schwartz
CAST:  Peter Capaldi  •  Richard Wilson  •  Jeremy Northam  •  Frances Barber

Restless Natives (1985)

Two lads in Edinburgh embark on a non-violent spree of robberies. They dress up in clown masks and act as modern highwaymen, robbing coach loads of tourists in the highlands. In the process they become folk heroes to the locals. Their adventures make for a ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Michael Hoffman
CAST:  Ned Beatty  •  Vincent Friell  •  Joe Mullaney  •  Teri Lally

Two lads in Edinburgh embark on a non-violent spree of robberies. They dress up in clown masks and act as modern highwaymen, robbing coach loads of tourists in the highlands. In the process they become folk heroes to the locals. Their adventures make for a ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Michael Hoffman
CAST:  Ned Beatty  •  Vincent Friell  •  Joe Mullaney  •  Teri Lally

The Key (2003)

The story of three generations told against the backdrop of the 20th century. The drama focuses on the life of Mary Corrigan, from her days as a rebellious mill worker in 1915 and her doomed love affair for a man who must fight for his country, through to her final ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  David Blair
CAST:  Dawn Steele  •  Ronni Ancona  •  Frances Grey  •  Ken Stott

The story of three generations told against the backdrop of the 20th century. The drama focuses on the life of Mary Corrigan, from her days as a rebellious mill worker in 1915 and her doomed love affair for a man who must fight for his country, through to her final ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  David Blair
CAST:  Dawn Steele  •  Ronni Ancona  •  Frances Grey  •  Ken Stott

The Nuclear Family (1982)

1999: A perma-redundant father takes his family on a strange ‘working holiday’, scrubbing floors in an undersea missile base.  (more)

DIRECTION:  John Glenister
CAST:  Jimmy Logan  •  Russell Hunter  •  Gerard Kelly  •  Ann Scott-Jones

1999: A perma-redundant father takes his family on a strange ‘working holiday’, scrubbing floors in an undersea missile base.  (more)

DIRECTION:  John Glenister
CAST:  Jimmy Logan  •  Russell Hunter  •  Gerard Kelly  •  Ann Scott-Jones

The Thin End of the Wedge (1977)

'Five days of darkness then. Unless you get it together we will have five days of darkness. And on the sixth day you will say, let there be light, and no doubt it'll an be such an effort that on the seventh day you'll have to rest!'. TV play by Sean McCarthy.  (more)

DIRECTION:  John Black
CAST:  Tom Marshall  •  Eileen Nicholas  •  Gordon Reid  •  Freddie Boardley

'Five days of darkness then. Unless you get it together we will have five days of darkness. And on the sixth day you will say, let there be light, and no doubt it'll an be such an effort that on the seventh day you'll have to rest!'. TV play by Sean McCarthy.  (more)

DIRECTION:  John Black
CAST:  Tom Marshall  •  Eileen Nicholas  •  Gordon Reid  •  Freddie Boardley

It Could Happen to Anybody (1984)

"It never done a woman any harm to be at the end o' a back-hander." In a society where drunkenness and battered wives are treated as 'normal', Jean McLeod attempts to hold her family together. But after a particularly severe beating she decides to fight back.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Laurence Moody
CAST:  Ann Scott-Jones  •  Joseph Brady  •  William McBain  •  Joe Mullaney

"It never done a woman any harm to be at the end o' a back-hander." In a society where drunkenness and battered wives are treated as 'normal', Jean McLeod attempts to hold her family together. But after a particularly severe beating she decides to fight back.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Laurence Moody
CAST:  Ann Scott-Jones  •  Joseph Brady  •  William McBain  •  Joe Mullaney