The Illusionist, a French movie set in Edinburgh based on an unproduced script by the celebrated film-maker Jacques Tati, also makes the cut.

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Now one of his unproduced scripts from the mid-1970s has been directed by his son, Nick Cassavetes.

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Hooper paid tribute to his mother, who had drawn his attention to the story after she attended a reading of the tale when it was an unproduced play.

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