The Flint Street Nativity

The Flint Street Nativity is a 1999 British television comedy film directed by Marcus Mortimer, written by Tim Firth, and starring Frank Skinner, Neil Morrissey, Jane Horrocks, John Thomson, Stephen Tompkinson, Mark Addy, Ralf Little, Julia Sawalha, Mina Anwar and Dervla Kirwan.

The film is set in the fictitious inner city Flint Street Primary School, on the Welsh-Cheshire borders.

The story is based on real events, collected over ten years from members of Tim Firth's family and friends who were teachers.

The actresses wore swimsuits three sizes too small to flatten their adult body parts.

[2] Alfred Hickling of The Guardian thought the film "exposes what an ungodly snake pit of paediatric power-politics the staging of your average Nativity play can be...