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Fat Friends (2000)
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story:
Fat Friends was an ITV drama, following a group of overweight people, their laughter and pain and addresses the absurdities of dieting in our modern age. The drama looks at people and how they relate to one another and use body weight as an excuse for all sorts of failings in their relationships, or not living their lives to the full. Four of the cast, Ruth Jones, James Corden, Sheridan Smith and Alison Steadman, went on to appear in Gavin & Stacey.
Style:
psychological, touching, sentimental, humorous, hilarious, sincere, uplifting, clever, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
support group, obesity, weight loss, friendship, family relations, self fulfillment, society, physical appearance, hopes, overweight, bulimia, satire, colleague, diet, friends, misfit, social relations, eating disorder, bittersweet, cooking and food, escort, bullying, mother daughter relationship, infertility, male escort ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
yorkshire, northern england, england, europe
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Duration: 29 min.
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Audience:
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Time:
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Place:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Time:
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Place:
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Duration: 540 min.
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: UK
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Style:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: UK
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: Mexico
Duration: 45 min.
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Country: UK
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Style:
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Place:
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Country: UK
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Place:
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Duration: 30 min.
TV show
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Style:
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Plot:
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Plot:
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Country: UK
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TV show
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Place:
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Story:
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Country: UK
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Audience:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
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Time:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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