The Girl in the Cafe

The Girl in the Café
Written by	Richard Curtis
Directed by	David Yates
Starring	Bill Nighy Kelly Macdonald Marit Velle Kile
Theme music composer	Nicholas Hooper
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language(s)	English/French
Production
Producer(s)	Hilary Bevan Jones
Cinematography	Chris Seager
Editor(s)	Mark Day
Running time	94 minutes
Production company(s)	BBC Wales Tightrope Pictures HBO Films
Release
Original network	BBC One
Picture format	16:9 576i
Audio format	Stereo
Original release	25 June 2005

The Girl in the Café is a British made-for-television drama film directed by David Yates, written by Richard Curtis and produced by Hilary Bevan Jones. The film is produced by the independent production company Tightrope Pictures and was originally screened on BBC One in the United Kingdom on 25 June 2005. It was also shown in the United States on cable television station Home Box Office on the same day. Bill Nighy portrays the character of Lawrence, with Kelly Macdonald portraying Gina. Nighy and Macdonald had previously starred together in the 2003 BBC serial State of Play, which was also directed by Yates and produced by Bevan-Jones. The Girl in the Café's casting director is Fiona Weir who, at the time, was also the casting director for the Harry Potter films, the last four of which Yates directed. The film was noted at the 2006 Primetime Emmy Awards; it won for Outstanding Made for Television Movie.

The film tells the story of Lawrence (Bill Nighy), a civil servant working for the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Ken Stott), who falls in love with Gina (Kelly Macdonald), a young woman whom he meets by chance in a London café. Lawrence takes Gina to a G8 summit in Reykjavík, Iceland, where she confronts the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (Corin Redgrave) over the issue of third world debt and poverty in Africa, much to Lawrence's embarrassment and the anger of his employers. However, he realises that she is right and tries to help persuade the Chancellor and others at the summit to do something about the issues concerned.

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