

Clockwise
DirectorChristopher Morahan
“Mr. Stimpson ran his life and everyone else's by the clock. Then one day at 2:09 and 43 seconds... The clock decided to strike back.”
School headmaster Brian Stimpson is obsessed with timeliness, order, and discipline. Brian misses his train after meticulously preparing a speech for an education conference. With no one else to turn to, he asks young former student Laura Wisely for a ride. Laura, upset over a break-up, agrees to drive him in her parents' car - which alarms her mother and father, who worry that she has run away with a married man and subsequently alert the police.
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Cast

John Cleese
Brian Stimpson

Penelope Wilton
Pat Garden

Alison Steadman
Gwenda Stimpson

Stephen Moore
Mr. John Jolly

Joan Hickson
Mrs. Ellie Trellis

Benjamin Whitrow
Headmaster

Geoffrey Palmer
Headmaster

Michael Aldridge
Prior

Sharon Maiden
Laura Wisely
Penny Leatherbarrow
Woman Teacher
Howard Lloyd-Lewis
Ted
Jonathan Bowater
Clint
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