Nativity! (film)
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| Directed by | Debbie Isitt |
| Produced by | Nick Jones |
| Written by | Debbie Isitt |
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Martin Freeman Ashley Jensen Jason Watkins Marc Wootton Alan Carr Pam Ferris Ricky Tomlinson |
| Music by | Nicky Ager Debbie Isitt |
| Cinematography | Sean Van Hales |
| Edited by | Nicky Ager |
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| Distributed by | Freestyle Releasing E1 Entertainment |
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105 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | £2,000,000 |
| Box office | £5,187,402 |
Nativity! is a 2009 British Christmas comedy film directed by Debbie Isitt and released on 27 November 2009 and the first in the Nativity (film series). The film stars Martin Freeman and Ashley Jensen. The film is written by its director, Debbie Isitt, but is also partially improvised. The film premiered on 23 November 2009 in the SkyDome Arena, Coventry, England. It was released in cinemas on 27 November three weeks after rival festive film Disney's A Christmas Carol opened.
A sequel Nativity 2: Danger in the Manger was released in November 2012, and a third film, Nativity 3: Dude, Where's My Donkey?, was released in November 2014.
Paul Maddens (Martin Freeman) is a "frustrated, under-achieving primary school teacher" who once had ambitions of being successful as an actor, producer or director. Every year St Bernadette's Catholic school in Coventry, where he teaches, competes with a local Protestant private school (Oakmoor) to see who can produce the best nativity play. Paul hates Christmas because his ex-girlfriend Jennifer Lore (Ashley Jensen), who attended drama school with him, left him at Christmas before he could propose to her. Despite this, the St Bernadette's headteacher Mrs Bevans (Pam Ferris) tasks him with running their nativity play this year, and gives him a new class teaching assistant called Mr Poppy (Marc Wootton), who turns out to be as much of a child as the rest of Paul's class.
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