Bernard and the Genie

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Bernard and the Genie
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Genre	Comedy drama Fantasy Supernatural
Written by	Richard Curtis
Directed by	Paul Weiland
Starring	Lenny Henry Alan Cumming Rowan Atkinson Dennis Lill Angie Clarke
Theme music composer	Howard Goodall
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
Production
Producers	Jacinta Peel Peter Fincham Mary Francis
Cinematography	Roger Pratt
Editor	Ian Weil
Running time	67 minutes
Original release
Release	23 December 1991 (1991-12-23)
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Bernard and the Genie is a 1991 British fantasy comedy-drama television film directed by Paul Weiland and written by Richard Curtis. Co-produced by Attaboy and Talkback for BBC Television, the film was first shown on BBC1 on 23 December 1991,^[1] with a single BBC repeat on 19 December 1993.^[2] A comic fantasy that takes its inspiration from The Book of One Thousand and One Nights, it follows Alan Cumming as an art dealer who is not having a good day. Lenny Henry won the Radio Times TV Comedy Performance of the Year award for his portrayal of the Genie.^[3]