100 Films and a Funeral plot
At the dawn of the 1990s, the British Michael Kuhn worked as a lawyer for the music group PolyGram. Kuhn has no experience in the film business, but he has big ambitions: he dreams of starting a film studio in London that can compete with Hollywood. And that works. In 1991 PolyGram Filmed Entertainment was created as a branch of Philips and record label PolyGram. Less than five years later, the film studio caused a furore in Cannes, at the Sundance Festival and at the Oscars with films such as Four Weddings and a Funeral, Fargo, Dead Man Walking, The Usual Suspects, Elizabeth, Trainspotting and Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. In total, the studio has made and distributed more than a hundred feature films in its almost ten years of existence, of which no fewer than fourteen have won an Oscar. But at the moment that Michael Kuhn and his team seem to be breaking all records with the film Notting Hill, parent company Philips gets a new chairman, Cor Boonstra, and he no longer sees any potential in PolyGram...