Chris Bernard
Biography
Chris Bernard is an English film director, producer, writer and occasional actor. Born in Liverpool, Bernard started his professional career in the theatre, before moving to cinema and television. He has directed eight films since his acclaimed debut, Letter to Brezhnev, in 1985, including films for BBC Television's prestigious Screen Two and ScreenPlay strands. He has also directed several episodes of TV shows such as Brookside, Making Out, The Locksmith, Preston Front, And The Beat Goes On, Brum, and My Parents Are Aliens. He is the co-patron, with Sir Derek Jacobi KBE and Thomas Lang, of the Outsiders Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, Liverpool UK.
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Movie - 2006, 2h 15m • as Priest
Under The Mud depicts a hectic day in the life of a family from hell. Or are they ‘one hell of a family’? The film’s setting of Speke and Garston in Liverpool is an area with high unemployment and one of the worst teenage pregnancy rates in Europe. The action takes place over twenty-four hours, centering around the Potts household – second home to teenage slacker, Magic, who’s such a part of the furniture that his longing for the eccentric beauty Paula Potts goes completely un-noticed. To the love of his life he’s just her twin brother’s best mate. With the family set on a course of self-destruction, aided by an old enemy of dad’s, and Paula arguing with her imaginary friend about running off to Ibiza with the local slime-ball, Magic realises that he only has a few hours to save the family, get the girl and change all of their lives forever.