Eric Sykes Kinnear, Beryl Reid, and Norman Rossington. It was his last screen appearance with Hattie Jacques. The film employed an idea drawn from the British showbiz tradition in which extras used the word "rhubarb" to simulate low-level background dialogue, which had also been a running joke in "The Goon Show". In 1981, Sykes wrote, directed, and starred in the offbeat comedy "If You Go Down in the Woods Today" for Thames, with a cast including Roy Kinnear, Fulton Mackay, and George Sewell. During 1982, Sykes played the Chief Constable in the slapstick police comedy film "The Boys in Blue", which starred
It's Such a Beautiful Day (film) limited theatrical run before becoming available on DVD, Vimeo, iTunes, and Netflix. The three chapters of the film were originally produced and released independently as animated short films, captured entirely on 35mm film with in-camera special effects. The first installment, "Everything Will Be OK", was released in 2006 and won the 2007 Sundance Film Festival Grand Prize for Short Film. The second installment, "I Am So Proud of You" was released in 2008. The third and final chapter of the trilogy, "It's Such a Beautiful Day", shares the same name as the feature-length movie and was released in 2011 to