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It's the late 1970s and 20-something. Christopher Fowler is a film freak, obsessively watching lousy films in run-down fleapit cinemas. He longs to be a famous screenwriter and put his dreams on the big screen. And so he heads for Wardour Street, Britain's equivalent of Hollywood. But he's made a spectacular mistake, arriving just as the nation's filmmakers are falling to their knees, brought low by the arrival of video and the destruction of the old movie palaces. The only films being made are smutty low budget farces and TV spinoffs and instead of being asked to write another 'Bullitt', he's churning out short films advertising boilers and nylon sheets. Somehow, against the odds, he finds success - although in a very different guise to the one he expected. From the sticky Axminster of the local cinema to the red carpet at Cannes, Film Freak is a grimly hilarious and acutely observed trawl through the arse-end of the British film industry that turns into an ultimately affecting search for friendship and happiness.

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Book category Books in English Biography & True Stories Biography: general Biography: arts & entertainment

• Full title: Film Freak
• Author: Christopher Fowler
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352
• EAN: 9780857501790
• ISBN: 0857501798
• ID: 02150808
• Publisher: Transworld Publ. Ltd UK
• Weight: 258 g
• Dimensions: 198 × 128 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 27. February 2014

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