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LAST LAUGH

By Daniel COLL

VISUALIZE FILMS - as PROD

Comedy - Completed 2017

University professor turns to Stand Up comedy to vent his anger over his struggles with his aging parents

- Year of production
- 2017
- Genres
- Comedy
- Countries
- UNITED KINGDOM
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Director(s)
- Daniel COLL
- Cast
- John GODBER, Nick FIGGIS, Jane THORNTON, Ann MICKLETHWAITE, Toyah WILLCOX, Paul LAVERS, Amy THOMPSON, Victoria EKANOYE
- Producer(s)
- John DANBURY (VISUALIZE FILMS)
- Synopsis
- Written by and co staring BAFTA & Olivier Award winning writer, John Godber “Last Laugh” is a comic family drama.
  
  Depicting universal problems many people face in modern life through the eyes of a self-confessed failed writer.
  
  Martin Dawson is a man who has failed in many areas of his life, as a Screen Writer, as a Son, husband and father, as a teacher and employee. Most of his misery has been self-inflicted and partly brought on by his brief affair with an attractive and glamorous film agent.
  
  At the start of the film we see a much damaged man, damaged by his miserable failure (as he sees it) and his strained relationship with his Mother. We see him embarking on a midlife crisis that seems to have no possibility of a positive outcome.
  
  The film takes us on a journey through his attempts at Stand-up Comedy where we see his unbearable situation and his struggle to come to terms with his current situation laid bare in a cathartic rant.
  
  “Last Laugh” is a story of dark into light, a story of discovery and revelation, of pain into joy but most of all a story of real life. At heart it is a story of family, understanding and love with magical humour that grabs the audience and draws them in to, what in the end is a tale of Triumph over adversity and understanding of family.