Tommy Fawkes wants to be a successful comedian. After his Las Vegas debut is a failure, he returns to Blackpool where his father—also a comedian—started, and where he spent the summers of his childhood.
Casts Oliver Platt, Jerry Lewis, Lee Evans, Leslie Caron, Richard Griffiths, Oliver Reed, George Carl, Freddie Davies, Ruta Lee, Ian McNeice
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IMDB 5.9 | May , 2007
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IMDB 7.3 | Jan , 2005
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IMDB 3.5 | Nov , 2016
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IMDB 7.8 | Nov , 1998
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