Marvellous
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Marvellous DVD cover
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| Written by | Peter Bowker |
| Directed by | Julian Farino |
| Starring | Toby Jones |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
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| Producer(s) | Katie Swinden |
| Cinematography | David Odd |
| Running time | 90 minutes |
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| Original release | 25 September 2014 |
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| Author | Neil Baldwin, with Malcolm Clarke |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Autobiography |
| Publisher | John Blake Publishing |
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August 2015 |
| Media type | Print (hardback) |
Marvellous is a British drama television film that was first broadcast on BBC Two on 25 September 2014. The 90-minute film, directed by Julian Farino and written by Peter Bowker, is about the life of Neil Baldwin, from Westlands in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire. Baldwin, who is an honorary graduate of Keele University, was appointed as Stoke City Football Club's kit-man by the manager Lou Macari in the 1990s. Baldwin's autobiography, Marvellous: Neil Baldwin – My Story, was published in hardback in 2015.
Making cameo appearances as themselves:
The programme was commissioned by Janice Hadlow and Ben Stephenson. The executive producers were Patrick Spence and Peter Bowker for Fifty Fathoms and Tiger Aspect Productions, and Lucy Richer for the BBC.
Marvellous was filmed mostly in Staffordshire. Several of the scenes were set at and filmed at Keele University.Crewe Alexandra Football Club's Alexandra Stadium and the Glyndŵr University Racecourse Stadium in Wrexham, North Wales were used for the scenes set at Stoke City's football ground.
Writing in The Guardian, Sam Wollaston praised Jones's "lovely, very human, performance".
Andrew Anthony, for The Observer, said "Jones realised its potential with such poignant insight into character that it’s impossible to imagine anyone else playing the part. [Baldwin]'s life has been a triumph of unselfconsciousness, which is easier read about than captured. But in a story fraught with the danger of sentimentality, Bowker located a sort of comic truth about an innocent at home and Jones made that truth both funny and movingly real."
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