Cinema of the United Kingdom as Goldcrest, HandMade Films and Merchant Ivory Productions. Handmade Films, which was partly owned by George Harrison, was originally formed to take over the production of "Monty Python's Life of Brian", after EMI's Bernard Delfont (Lew Grade's brother) had pulled out. Handmade also bought and released the gangster drama "The Long Good Friday" (1980), produced by a Lew Grade subsidiary, after its original backers became cautious. Members of the Python team were involved in other comedies during the decade, including Terry Gilliam's fantasy films "Time Bandits" (1981) and "Brazil" (1985), and John Cleese's hit "A Fish Called Wanda" (1988), while
British comedy films Python team) is "A Fish Called Wanda", a multicultural movie between British and American cultures, with the American actress Jamie Lee Curtis. To finish, Monty Python produced in 1983 "Monty Python's The Meaning of Life". One of the major developments of the 1990s was the re-emergence of the romantic comedy film, like "Four Weddings and a Funeral" (1994), "Sliding Doors" (1998), and "Notting Hill" (1999). Recent successful films, more representative of British humour were the working class comedies "Brassed Off" (1996) and "The Full Monty" (1997). In 1990 Rowan Atkinson created a series for TV "Mr. Bean", which made the