SS25-312 Comedy Movies
Stillwater | Available (Membership Required)
Experience even more humor from the British Isles with these acclaimed comedies from across the pond. In Brassed Off Ewan MacGregor and Tara Fitzgerald walk the romantic line while controversy in an English mining village rages and affects the Colliery Brass Band. The famous Gregory’s Girl follows the problems of an adolescent boy with sex, soccer and coming of age in Scotland. With an interest in ballet dancing, a young boy, Billy Elliot, faces the prejudice of an English mining town. Jamie Bell stars with Julie Walter as Billy’s supportive dance instructor. Hugh Grant, Andie MacDowell and Kristin Scott Thomas star in this comic saga, Four Weddings and a Funeral, which set the standard for romantic comedies.
Vickie Sturgeon
Vickie Sturgeon, PhD, is a graduate of the Radio-TV-Film program at OSU. She studied broadcasting and motion picture history at the University of Kansas. Motion Pictures of the 1930s and 1940s are her particular interest. Dr. Sturgeon taught mass communication and media courses for twenty years at Tennessee State University in Nashville. She has worked for several public radio stations including KOSU and Minnesota Public Radio and is involved in historic preservation including work at the Sheerar Museum in Stillwater.