Clockwise (1986)

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John Cleese, at his harried best in this hilarious British comedy, plays a school headmaster obsessed with punctuality. His best laid plans to attend a headmasters' conference go wrong when he boards the wrong train. He turns back to find alternative means of transport, hijacking one of his pupils who is taking the afternoon off school in her father's car. As the journey descends into further chaos, the head begins to lose his schoolmasterly poise.

in this hilarious comedy hit written by michael frayn, john cleese stars as the compulsively punctual headmaster of a british high school. but on the day stimpson is to give a major speech at a chase filld missed trains, confused cops, strange monks, odd old ladies and stolen clothes. can stimpson make up for precious lost time or is the entire world conspiring to make him late for the most important appointment of his life!