Director/Script: Mark Herman
Based on the Play "The Rise and Fall of Little Voice" by John Cartwright
Photography: Andy Collins
Editor: Michael Ellis
Music: John Altman
Production Design: Don Taylor
Casting: Priscilla John
Principal Cast: Michael Caine, Brenda Blethyn, Jim Broadbent, Ewan McGregor, Jane Horrocks
Producer: Elizabeth Karlsen
Co-Producers: Laurie Borg, Nik Powell, Stephen Woolley
Co-Executive Producers: Bob Weinstein, Harry Weinstein, Paul Webster
Production: Scala Produktion
World Sales: Miramax Int.
Tel: +44 171 535 8333
Fax: +44 171 535 8334
Distribution Germany: Scotia-Film Deutschland
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Fax: +49 89 490 63 20
Berlinale Panorama 1999
Selected Filmography - Mark Herman: Blame it on the Bellboy, 1992; Brassed off, 1996.
Traumatised, timorous and silent since the death of her father, young Laura, called Little Voice, lives in a less than romantic English port city with her matronly, liquor-loving, garrulous mother Mari. The widow is on the lookout for a handsome, well-to-do suitor and thinks she has come upon him in the person of Ray Say, a spectacularly unsuccessful talent scout. But when he hears Little Voice singing in her room, he turns all his efforts to staging a hit show with his new “discovery”. The story of Little Voice got rave reviews on the London stage before it was turned into a movie with the same protagonist and singer, Jane Horrocks, who is joined here by a prominent, award-winning cast. The story is a mixture of razor-sharp humour, substantial entertainment and gripping emotional entanglements full of surprising twists. It quickly captured the hearts of the audience at this year’s Berlinale.