Fast Freddie, The Widow and Me

Fast Freddie, The Widow and Me
Genre Drama
Written by Christopher Dunlop
Directed by David Richards
Starring Lawrence Fox
Jack McMullen
Sarah Smart
Marian McLoughlin
Tamzin Outhwaite
David Westhead
Faye Daveney
Judy Flynn
Bill Paterson
Country of origin United Kingdom
Original language(s) English
No. of episodes 1
Production
Executive producer(s) Margaret Enefer
Producer(s) Madonna Baptise
Running time 90 minutes
Production company(s) STV Productions
Release
Original network ITV, STV, UTV
Picture format PAL (576i)
Audio format Stereo
Original release 27 December 2011 (2011-12-27)

Fast Freddie, The Widow and Me is a 2011 one-off Christmas special, made by STV Productions and broadcast by ITV on Tuesday 27 December 2011. The special centres on a wealthy car dealer Jonathan Donald who befriends a terminally ill teenager Freddie Copeland and makes his Christmas wish come true.

Plot

Jonathan Donald (Lawrence Fox) is a wealthy car dealer who is sentenced to 60 hours at The Moonbeam Club for young adults who have social and behavioural difficulties after drink driving. At the club Jonathan meets recently widowed Laura Cooper (Sarah Smart) but Laura doesn't like Jonathan's attitude towards the club and soon tells him to leave. Following leaving the club Jonathan is forced to return by the judge for 100 hours and soon befriends 19-year-old Freddie Copeland (Jack McMullen) a gadget expert at the club. Jonathan learns that Freddie is dying of kidney failure and a genetic heart condition and this Christmas could be his last. Freddie wishes for a family Christmas so Jonathan sets up a plan to help him much to Laura's despair. Jonathan soon tracks down Freddie's real mother but she refuses to accept that she is Freddie's mother so Jonathan alters his plan and with the help of Jonathan's best friend Charlie, Laura's mother Julia and some criminals led by fraudster Patsy Morgan (Tamzin Outhwaite) Jonathan makes Freddie's wish come true. Freddie dies in hospital after Christmas so Laura, Jonathan and The Moonbeam Club put his ashes into fireworks and set them off on 12 April as Freddie's last wish comes true.[1][2][3]

Cast

Notes

  1. ↑ "Laurence Fox and Tamsin Outhwaite to star in STV festive drama Fast Freddie, the Widow and Me". STV Entertainment. 18 November 2011. Retrieved 12 January 2012.
  2. ↑ "Fast Freddie, The Widow and Me". ITV Press Centre. 9 May 2011. Retrieved 12 January 2012.
  3. ↑ "Laurence Fox: Fast Freddie, The Widow and Me is more than a parable". Metro. 22 December 2011. Retrieved 12 January 2012.

References

External links

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Sunday, March 06, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.