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Nativity! is a British film of genre Comedy directed by Debbie Isitt with Martin Freeman
Nativity! (2009)
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Add to a movie listNativity! is a British comedy directed by Debbie Isitt and released on 27 November 2009. The film stars Martin Freeman and Ashley Jensen. The film is written by its director, Debbie Isitt, but is also partially improvised.
The film premiered on 23 November 2009 in the SkyDome Arena, Coventry, England. It was released in cinemas on 27 November three weeks after rival festive film Disney's A Christmas Carol opened.
A sequel Nativity 2: Danger in the Manger was released in November 2012, and director Debbie Isitt has confirmed a third film, with filming starting in November 2013 and was released in November 2014 Suggestions were that the film is very similar to Daddy Day Care.
Synopsis
Paul Maddens (Martin Freeman) is a "frustrated, under-achieving primary school teacher" who once had ambitions of being successful as an actor, producer or director. Every year St. Bernadette's Catholic school in Coventry, where he teaches, competes with a local Protestant private school (Oakmoor) to see who can produce the best nativity play. Maddens hates Christmas because his ex-girlfriend Jennifer Lore (Ashley Jensen), who attended drama school with him, left him at Christmas before he could propose to her. Despite this, the St. Bernadette's headteacher Mrs Bevans (Pam Ferris) tasks him with running their nativity play this year, and gives him a new class teaching assistant called Mr Poppy (Marc Wootton), who turns out to be as much of a child as the rest of Mr Maddens's class.Actors
Martin Freeman
(Paul Maddens)
Ashley Jensen
(Jennifer Lore)
Jason Watkins
(Gordon Shakespeare)
Marc Wootton
(Mr. Poppy)
John Sessions
(Mr. Lore)
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