Touching the Void (film) reminiscence of a Boney M song he hated thoroughly, "Brown Girl in the Ring"; at one point thinking "Bloody hell, I'm going to die to Boney M". Touching the Void (film) Touching the Void is a 2003 docudrama survival film directed by Kevin MacDonald and starring Brendan Mackey, Nicholas Aaron, and Ollie Ryall. The plot concerns Joe Simpson's and Simon Yates's disastrous and near-fatal climb of Siula Grande in the Cordillera Huayhuash in the Peruvian Andes in 1985. It is based on Simpson's 1988 book of the same name. Critically acclaimed, "Touching the Void" was listed in PBS's "100 'Greatest'
Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang (1978 film) (1978) predates the 1999 film of the same name Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang, as well as the popular television series Jacob Two-Two, which aired from 2003 to 2006. The main character of Richler's book and its subsequent adaptions is Jacob Two-Two, a young boy who has a habit of repeating himself in order to be heard by those around him. This humorous children's story recounts the adventure of a young boy who strives to be heard. As "Toronto Globe and Mail" writer James Bradshaw writes, Jacob Two-Two is "two plus two plus two years old, has two brothers