Tony Marchant

Writing

Tony Marchant

Born

1959-07-11 (67)

Place of birth

East End, London, England, UK

Known for

Writing

Credits

13 titles

Tony Marchant is a British playwright and television dramatist.

Known for

Film credits

Series credits

Behind the camera

The Attractions poster
NR

When Danny, 'one of Maggie's wandering minstrels', visits a seaside horror museum, he is rather disappointed. 'It's all about victims. Now people are interested in who done it, not who it got done to ...' So begins a process of disintegration which culminates in a new type of exhibit, 'an attraction' for the modern age.

The Attractions

1989

The Mark of Cain poster
5.2

After a bomb kills their company commander in Iraq, British soldiers Treacle and Shane are ordered to round up suspects and use torture on the detainees. Back home, the press gets the story and the pair achieves instant infamy.

The Mark of Cain

2007

Diverted poster
6.8

On September 11th, 2001, 38 planes headed to New York City were diverted to Gander, Newfoundland, Canada. A town of 9,000 took in 7,000 passengers for 4 days until American airspace reopened.

Diverted

2009

Different for Girls poster
7.1

Paul and Kim meet when their vehicles collide. Paul is fascinated with the attractive Kim. It turns out that the two were childhood friends in Catholic boys' school, but back then, before the operation, Kim was named Karl.

Different for Girls

1996

No artwork available
5.5

Drama about the world of deregulated financial trading in the City of London during the Thatcher era.

The Moneymen

1988

Great Expectations poster
6.4

Orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.

Great Expectations

1999

Death of a Son poster
5.8

The true story of Pauline Williams, who struggled to bring the people who supplied her son with the illegal drugs that caused his death to justice.

Death of a Son

1989

Reservations poster
NR

Linda: When are we going? Gary: Next Friday. Linda: Have you booked? Gary: It's called making a reservation. Linda: I feel excited Gal. My stomach feels all funny. Gary: If it feels funny now, wait till next Friday ...

Reservations

1985

Recovery poster
6.4

Alan and Tricia Hamilton are blissfully happy. Until one day their perfect life is torn apart when Alan steps in front of a passing car, and he is left with a brain injury that completely transforms his personality.

Recovery

2007

This Year's Model poster
NR

'Look, I'm not being horrible or nothing, Sadie, but all you've got is a body. You've got to make the most of it. It's not enough just to like the idea of being a model. You've got to be businesslike about it.' How does 16-year-old Sadie react to her friend Mary's advice? Where - in the glamour model world - will she end up?

This Year's Model

1987

Speaking In Tongues poster
NR

Tony Marchant's eloquent and painful play about the changes to how people are employed, and what that does to their sense of self.

Speaking In Tongues

1994