Clockwise
A punctuality obsessed school headmaster's day goes awry when he misses the train for an important speech he's going to make at the annual Headmasters' Conference.
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"The secret of this comedy is its pacing. It shows the events of one working day in the lives of a range of people from schoolchildren to pensioners, whose course is hilariously skewed for them all by the obsession of the film's central character. It uses a traditional "obsessive tunnel vision" strategy of comedy - a character's failure to see the chaos he is causing in the lives of those who are unlucky enough to lie in the path between him and his goal. Alison Steadman plays the sassy schoolgirl who does everything she can to help her headteacher achieve this obsession, ..."
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The name of the school was Thomas Tompion Comprehensive School. Tompion (1639-1713) was a renowned mechanician, regarded as the father of English clockmaking. He constructed some of the first spring-balanced watches, and some of the timepieces he made are still operational.
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A punctuality obsessed school headmaster's day goes awry when he misses the train for an important speech he's going to make at the annual Headmasters' Conference.