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Dec 28, 2000 · Donovan Quick: Directed by David Blair. With Colin Firth, Katy Murphy, David O'Hara, Liz Smith. Retelling of the Don Quixote story set in present day Scotland.
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- Drama
- David Blair
- 2000-12-28
Enter Donovan Quick, the mysterious wordsmith who takes up residence with the Pannick family and changes their lives and the community in the process. When the Windmill Transport Bus Company discontinues a local train route, leaving Sandy with no way to get to his day care center, Donovan decides they should start their own one-bus company.
- David Blair
- Colin Firth
Donovan Quick (2000) View more photos Movie Info. Synopsis Quirky stranger Donovan (Colin Firth) blows into the Scottish village of Port Clyde. There, he rents a room with the Pannick family and ...
- David Blair
- BBC
- Colin Firth
Donovan Quick is a modern day reworking of Cervantes Don Quixote. It also happens to be a critique of the Tory governments privatisation policies of public transport. In short council led bus services being replaced by private monopolies who stifle competition. They also gets millions of pounds in government subsidies.
A greedy local bus company, Windmill Transport, has monopolized the public transport in the area and cut important but less profitable services, including one that is vital to the lives of the Pannick family. Donovan Quick, a polite stranger newly arrived in town, comes to the rescue and takes on the windmills by setting up his owner operated ...
The people of Port Clyde take to Donovan's new bus service, but the local transit authorities aren't at all happy to have competition, and Donovan finds his new business in hot water. Donovan Quick was the first theatrical feature from director David Blair, who previously made a name for himself in British television productions.
Quirky stranger Donovan (Colin Firth) blows into the Scottish village of Port Clyde. There, he rents a room with the Pannick family and ingratiates himself into their lives. Lucy (Katy Murphy) is the long-suffering matriarch of the clan, caring for her senile grandmother (Liz Smith) and mentally disabled brother, Sandy (David Brown). When the town cancels Sandy's train route to school, Donovan ...
