The young actress stars as Milly Farrier, the daughter of Colin Farrell's character Holt Farrier in Dumbo.
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Before the audience Q&A with Farrier and Reeve, Clarke stormed out, telling audience members to "say hi" to Farrier.
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In the Tim Burton-directed film Parker, 14, stars as Milly Farrier, the daughter of Colin Farrell's character Holt Farrier and becomes close to baby Dumbo.
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Because Jane O'Brien Media and Debbie Kuhn were so adamant in their warnings to Farrier not to write anything about the company or competitive tickling, Farrier quickly decided something strange was going on.
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While Farrier and Reeve were trying to figure out who was behind Jane O'Brien Media, Debbie Kuhn's initially homophobic warnings to Farrier quickly escalated into legal threats for him to cease investigating the company.
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"Everybody wants lower rates," said Jasmine Farrier, a budget process expert.
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Watch out new film 'VICE Talks 'Tickled' with Documentary Filmmaker David Farrier.'
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"It was sometimes difficult to keep going," Mr. Farrier said on Saturday.
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Definitely. Does David Farrier seem self-indulgent and convinced of his documentary's overwhelming importance?
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"In a way, Tickled is like a cautionary tale of the internet," Farrier said.
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Instead, like the reporter he is, Mr. Farrier turned his inquisitiveness into an investigation.
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David Farrier is a well-known light entertainment TV reporter from Auckland, New Zealand.
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Holt Farrier used to perform as a daring horse rider in a pair with his wife.
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Farrier admits as much in the film, noting several meetings with Clarke that were secretly recorded.
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"It seemed like a documentary was a great way to stop the victimization," Mr. Farrier said.
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Suspecting that neither woman existed and that both names were aliases, Farrier and Reeve began investigating.
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Farrier travels to a circus at the behest of its owner Max Medici, played by Danny DeVito.
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As soon as Farrier and Reeve begin working on the story, they are threatened with legal action.
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He and Farrier had one simple goal: to tell the world who Norman, Jane, and Debbie really were.
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"We're dealing with somebody who doesn't want to be found and doesn't want to be made," Farrier explains.
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His father, James, held a variety of jobs, from farrier to candy maker, and the family moved often.
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A New Zealand journalist named David Farrier discovered this touchy, feely realm when he came across an online video.
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"We've got to do a better job of taking advantage of the talents our guys have," Farrier told reporters.
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Farrier returns without an arm, and with a demotion; now, Medici tells him, he'll be in charge of the elephants.
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The most frustrating thing about David Farrier and Dylan Reeve's 2016 documentary Tickled is that it has no real resolution.
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Farrier and Reeve have stumbled into a fantastic story, but at times, they don't know what to do with it.
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Farrier became the target of vitriolic attacks and was slammed with cease and desist letters from New York City lawyers.
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In this docu-series, the New Zealand filmmaker David Farrier follows tourists seeking strange and macabre thrills around the world.
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Mr. Farrier pops by Pablo Escobar-inspired tours in Colombia and walks in the footsteps of Jeffrey Dahmer in Milwaukee.
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This may have been one that fell off on a ride or was discarded when the farrier was changing her shoes.
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Colin Farrell stars as Holt Farrier in the Tim Burton-directed film about an elephant named Dumbo born with oversized ears.
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Tickled is a procedural; the process of how Farrier and Reeve uncover their story takes up most of the documentary's narrative.
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At first, when Farrier contacted Jane O'Brien Media for information, an alleged employee calling herself Debbie Kuhn responded cheerfully by email.
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Backroom deals and promises, Farrier explained, could blunt some Freedom Caucus ire and convince them to get out of the way.
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These included a bizarre visit to Farrier from three supposed Jane O'Brien Media representatives who flew to New Zealand from the US. Although they were not lawyers, they were intimidating figures nonetheless — and they swore their employer was a real person with no connection to the real identity of the internet troll Farrier and Reeve were investigating.
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So did Farrier and Reeve leave things out of their documentary that could've portrayed their villains in a slightly more sympathetic light?
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"You can't walk away from people who are constantly telling you there's no story," Farrier told me during a recent phone interview.
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Farrier was unnerved but resigned; after all, his life has been full of these veiled threats ever since he discovered competitive tickling.
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Among other assertions, it alleges that Farrier tried to pay some of Jane O'Brien Media's tickling participants to appear in the documentary.
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Others come quickly thereafter: After Farrier begins investigating the company, O'Brien sends three of its henchmen to New Zealand to intimidate him.
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During his career, Mr. Farrier has interviewed Justin Bieber, reported on eels and looked into the cover art of black-metal bands.
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Erotic tickling: Ha ha, what a premise for a documentary, directed by Dylan Reeve and David Farrier, a journalist from New Zealand.
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Colin Farrell plays Holt Farrier, a Great War veteran who returns to his American circus family having lost an arm on the front.
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Clarke also alleges that Farrier promised to blur his young assistant's face in the final cut, but it appears in the documentary uncensored.
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But the clues Farrier and Reeve unearth along the way are generally so weird and unique that many people will find it riveting.
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Farrier quickly suspected that the tickling contest might really be about producing homoerotic fetish videos that Jane O'Brien Media could sell for profit.
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"Generally, those who were not happy with the ways their videos were being used had no idea where to turn," Farrier told Broadly.
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To learn more, VICE talked to Farrier about his new show, Logan Paul, and the many dark things he's seen in his travels. .
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Nearby, a waist-high green classical pillar is actually a petite side table made of powder-coated metal by the artist Samuel Farrier.
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Director: Daniel Farrier, Dylan Reeve Distributor: Magnolia Pictures for theatrical distribution; HBO for TV In the fine tradition of twisty Sundance docs like Catfish and Exit Through the Gift Shop, this bizarre and absorbing film starts with a kooky idea — New Zealand humorist/journalist Farrier investigating an online video of an "endurance tickling" contest — and then takes multiple sharp turns.
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The story of what Farrier and Reeve find at the bottom of the rabbit hole they fall into while investigating comprises Tickled's central drama.
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Farrier and Reeve have been open about battling Jane O'Brien Media's team of intimidating representatives and lawyers throughout the process of creating the film.
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"An unexpected, significant shift in the angle of the Sun can be your first sign that a course change is being made," Farrier wrote.
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There's also more of Colin Farrell as Holt Farrier, who cares for the elephant, but aside from that it's more of what you've seen before.
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"When we had the guys come to see us from the US, they were very insistent they weren't working for the same person," Farrier said.
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At another presentation of the film in Missouri, Farrier confirmed that two Jane O'Brien Media representatives were kicked out for attempting to record the film.
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Still, the company is doing its best: A new website has appeared that purports to tell the "truth" about Farrier and Reeve and their documentary.
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Mr. Farrier — who has an enviable deadpan — says that he wondered if this was a "tickling league," noting that participants were all in Adidas gear.
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At one point, in an effort to contextualize the story, Farrier goes to meet a tickle fetishist in Miami — one completely unconnected to Jane O'Brien Media.
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Farrier and Reeve are likely trying to tell a true story, but with a lack of sources willing to talk, Tickled does often feel one-sided.
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At times in Tickled, it's obvious that Farrier and Reeve think this story is their big break, and they'll do almost anything not to squander it.
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"Association with a homosexual journalist is not something we will embrace," a tickling event organizer wrote him in an email, apparently after researching Mr. Farrier online.
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" Mr. Farrier and Mr. Reeve, she added, "see the humor, but they also see the pathos — because it's all fun and giggles until someone gets hurt.
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In 2400, New Zealand journalist David Farrier stumbled across a phenomenon called "competitive endurance tickling" and fell headlong into one of the weirdest stories on the internet.
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The hero of Tickled is Farrier, who uncovers a "tickling ring" of sorts; it conceals a massive secret and a web of lies spanning nearly two decades.
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While D'Amato has relied on legal threats against Farrier and Reeve to clear his name, Clarke has created a website dedicated to exposing Tickled as a fraudulent documentary.
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From New Zealand, David Farrier and Dylan Reeve's documentary was meant to be lighthearted but turned into a nightmare, for the filmmakers, of intimidation and threatened lawsuits. NUTS!
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"It was a crazy thing to organize," said Farrier—whose last project, 2016's Tickled, saw him stumble upon the surprisingly dark and twisted world of competitive tickling.
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David Farrier and Dylan Reeve's documentary on the adult tickling world won't, in the end, leave you laughing — but it is a fascinating, mysterious dive into a subculture.
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And Farrier's nemesis, the mysterious person at the center of the whole documentary, appeared with Clarke to question Farrier and Reeve at Tickled's LA premiere on June 17, 2016.
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In an interview with Broadly, David Farrier, who also served as the film's director, explained that many of the men he spoke to received no help from the police.
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We get confirmation that Farrier was trying to sell Myfanwy in a similar exchange the night that Myfanwy lost her memory, and we meet the EVA behind said memory loss.
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My horse's farrier texts me — he trimmed my horse's hooves (he does them every nine weeks or so), so I get on my bank's app and have a check sent.
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The new film follows circus owner Max Medici (Danny DeVito) as he enlists the help of Holt Farrier (Colin Farrell) and his two children to care for the newborn Dumbo.
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Farrier was first introduced to CET in May 22014, when he stumbled upon a tickling casting notice that had been circulating on modeling and acting websites for about two years.
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But it's really an internet story, and many of its most fascinating secrets still hide online — for anyone brave enough to do what Farrier and Reeve did and go digging.
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And ultimately, Farrier told me, it'll be the plan's effect on individual constituencies, not its overall effect or value for the party's national image, that influences most of the votes.
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"Our origins are from here, so we want to make the relations stronger and stronger," said Vermes Balazs, 28, a Hungarian farrier dressed in leather armor he had tooled himself.
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Mr. Farrier is the investigator of the movie's central mystery, and he is "less of a showboat than some documentarians who assume that role," Manohla Dargis wrote in The Times.
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Early on in the documentary, Farrier and Reeve become obsessed with the company behind these tickling videos, Jane O'Brien Media, which sends the filmmakers threatening emails when they start snooping around.
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"Something went off in our brains that, okay, this is maybe bigger even than we think it is, or more serious, or there's something more to it," Farrier told me via Skype.
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There are also a few cute moments featuring the show's child actors, Finley Hobbins and Nico Parker (daughter of Thandie Newton), who play the son and daughter of Farrell's character, Holt Farrier.
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To say more would lessen the impact of Mr. Farrier and Mr. Reeve's discoveries, which they piece together with restraint and fine technique, using a clear, direct approach that serves the material.
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The film, produced by Carthew Neal, who has an associate producer credit on Disney's coming "Pete's Dragon," received its start when Mr. Farrier stumbled across a Facebook page seeking participants for tickling competitions.
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Mr. Farrier decided to make a documentary with a co-director, Dylan Reeve, an undertaking that grew rapidly surreal, soon involved legal threats and put the filmmakers on a plane to North America.
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Mr. Farrier, however, is less of a showboat than some documentarians who assume that role, and, after a while, this measured quality feels as much an ethical choice as a matter of temperament.
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Release date: June 17 Director: David Farrier, Dylan Reeve What it is: It seems like every few years, a new documentary makes the stunning realization that sometimes people lie to each other online.
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That's because for the most part, Farrier and Reeve spend much of the movie's running time feeling just as confused as their audience will be about what lies at the end of the trail.
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The new take on Disney's animated classic follows Farrier, a WWI veteran and amputee, as he returns to Medici's circus and gets tasked with taking care of the elephant that gives birth to Dumbo.
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However, since Farrier and Reeve have been adamant that Tickled is a dish best served unspoiled, you'll have to watch the documentary yourself to learn more about the internet troll and the troll's identity.
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Even if leadership can offer the Freedom Caucus enough cuts to mollify them without alienating too many moderates, which Farrier cautions is very tricky calculus to begin with, the group may pick other fights.
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At the time they were, traffic was potentially more exciting; running around on horseback or in a carriage, your fleet-footed horses shod by a farrier, using a GRINDSTONE to sharpen stuff, I guess.
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Farrier and Reeve confirmed to me that this associate was most likely a man who calls himself Kevin Clarke, the more hostile of two Jane O'Brien Media reps we meet at the beginning of the documentary.
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The Bears have yet to score a point in two games after falling to Towson (10-0) and Albany (26-22015), but hope to notch its first signature win under second-year coach Fred T. Farrier.
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In 2014, when Farrier first wrote about competitive tickling, online commenters noted that the story reminded them of a tale about a legendary internet troll who hadn't been heard from — with good reason — in nearly two decades.
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" This only further intrigued Mr. Farrier, who is gay, and he continued to reach out to Jane O'Brien Media and Ms. Kuhn, who, in turn, insisted that this was a "passionately and exclusively heterosexual athletic endurance activity.
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Featuring the original 1941 film's signature ballad "Baby Mine," the trailer for the Tim Burton-directed venture introduces our trunked little friend in a pile of hay, found by Colin Farrell, as Holt Farrier, and his young family.
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When the man agrees to tickle his partner consensually on camera, Farrier and Reeve slow the footage down and overlay it with a heavy-metal soundtrack — an apparent (and bizarre) effort to portray the fetish as inherently deranged.
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At one point in "Dunkirk," Farrier, low on fuel, is faced with a choice: pursue a German bomber that is harrying a warship crammed with evacuees, or turn tail and head for home before the tank runs dry?
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Set to a dreamy version of "Baby Mine" from the original 1941 cartoon, the visually spectacular trailer introduces Colin Farrell as Holt Farrier, a one-armed war veteran who, with his two children, discovers the titular, big-eared elephant.
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Walter is a Putney brewer who waters down his beer; he is also a farrier and a blacksmith (although, because of his "sour breath, or his loud voice, or his general way of going on," the horses are afraid of him).
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Two-thirds of the way through director Tim Burton's live-action remake of Dumbo — no spoilers, don't worry — Michael Keaton, playing a maniacal villain, hollers at our hero, a one-armed circus cowboy named Holt Farrier and played by Colin Farrell.
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"It's good to go in cold and just let it unfold in front of you, and then, at the end of it, you should spend a little time thinking it all through again and decide how you feel," Farrier said.
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For the most part, all that we see of him is his goggled eyes; not until the finale are we shown the rest of him, and only in the ensuing credits do we find out that he is called Farrier.
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As Farrier and his co-director Dylan Reeve try to uncover who's behind a mysterious tickling ring, what starts out as a funny, quirky story about a sexual fetish becomes a much darker story of repression, homophobia, abuse, control, and power.
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Rotten Tomatoes score: 47%Summary: Based on the original 1941 animated film, Tim Burton's "Dumbo" follows circus workers Max Medici (Danny DeVito) and Holt Farrier (Colin Farrell) as they turn a unique baby elephant with oversized ears into a crowd-pleasing circus performer.
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In Dark Tourist, a new docu-series for Netflix, New Zealand journalist David Farrier journeys around the world exploring what most people avoid, with the exception of so-called "dark tourists"—people who seek to vacation in spots associated with death and destruction.
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Would you be shocked to learn that Myfanwy's kindly boss Farrier (Joely Richardson) — who Past Myfanwy describes as the only person she can trust, and who is the only one who knows about Myfanwy's amnesia — is maybe not acting entirely in Myfanwy's best interests?
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On his website, Clarke says that during the filming of Tickled, he and two assistants flew to Auckland to meet with the filmmakers to "dispel homophobia accusations," but in the documentary, Farrier only says the men visited to tell him to drop the project entirely.
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A room featuring a purple paint-splattered "Cape Cod floor" — inspired by a Victorian-era method of creating a textured faux finish — is offset by a low, elegant white sofa, designed by Derian and outfitted with vibrant Jeanette Farrier textiles made from vintage Indian saris.
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"He's very conscientious about his work," Cline tells PEOPLE of Frazee, a farrier who, at least twice a year, arrived to trim and care for the hooves of the donkeys that roam free in the historic former gold mining camp near the base of Pike's Peak.
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While Reeve and Farrier were piecing together facts, they decided to launch a Kickstarter campaign to tell the whole story in documentary form — and got a bit of a boost when British comedian Stephen Fry chipped in enough money to get billed as one of Tickled's producers.
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Set exactly 100 years ago during the heyday of circuses, the movie has a foot in World War I. Veteran Holt Farrier (Colin Farrell) returns to his two children (Nico Parker, Finley Hobbins), who have lost their mother while their dad was losing an arm in Europe.
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Former circus star Holt Farrier (Colin Farrell), returns wounded from World War I to find that his wife and riding partner has died from Spanish Flu, leaving him to care for their two kids Milly (Nico Parker, who looks so much like mom Thandie Newton it's scary), and Joe (Finley Hobbins).
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David Farrier, a New Zealand journalist with a penchant for the bizarre, knew he had a good story when he stumbled upon an online video for competitive endurance tickling, in which young hunks were tied to a bed with their clothes on and tickled — and paid by a company called Jane O'Brien Media.
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New Zealand journalist David Farrier had no idea what he was getting into in 2014 when he answered an open call for men willing to participate in a "competitive endurance tickling" competition, and found himself falling down an unexpected rabbit hole of ancient internet legends, catfishing, sexual kinks, and sinister brushes with criminality.
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The Chequay's King Linda Farrier (Joely Richardson of Nip/Tuck and Red Sparrow) and Queen Conrad Grantchester (Adrian Lester) are jockeying for power by withholding information and using the secrets they do have as leverage, but their intrigue and power-plays feel clumsy and hollow, easy to trace back to their source or refute.
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David Farrier, a New Zealand journalist with a lust for the weird and bizarre, knew he had a story when he happened upon an online video for competitive endurance tickling, in which hunky young men were tied to a bed with their clothes on and tickled — and paid for it by a company called Jane O'Brien Media.
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The film is split into three parts: "The Mole," one week at the breakwater where ships docked to pick up men ushered out by Navy Commander Bolton (Kenneth Branagh); "The Sea," a day on a small boat captained by Mr. Dawson (Mark Rylance) answering the government's call for civilian vessels, the so-called Little Ships, to ferry soldiers across the Channel; and "The Air," an hour with a few Royal Air Force Spitfire pilots led by Farrier (Tom Hardy), whose plane either has a busted fuel gauge or a leaky tank.
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