--- name: "Iain Morris" canonical: "https://film.one/person/iain-morris" fi1m_id: "iain-morris" imdb_id: "nm0606597" tmdb_id: 84740 wikidata_id: "Q5980564" roles: ["Writer","Director","Producer"] born: "6 August 1973" reviewed_on_fi1m: 6 average_fi1m_score: 76 average_as: "writer" average_over: 3 updated: "2026-10-13T21:55:13.411975+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Iain Morris ## Identity Iain Morris - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/iain-morris - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** iain-morris - **IMDb ID:** nm0606597 - **TMDB ID:** 84740 - **Wikidata ID:** Q5980564 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain_Morris, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5980564, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0606597/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/84740 Writer and director. Born 6 August 1973 in Woking, Surrey, England, UK. ## Details - **Work:** Writer, Director, Producer - **Born:** 6 August 1973, Woking, Surrey, England, UK - **Active:** 2002–present - **Also known as:** Iain K. Morris, Iain Kevan Morris - **Titles on Fi1m:** 6: 1 acting, 2 directing, 3 writing - **Frequently works with:** [Taika Waititi](https://film.one/person/taika-waititi.md), [Damon Beesley](https://film.one/person/damon-beesley.md), [Jemaine Clement](https://film.one/person/jemaine-clement.md) - **Average Fi1m score:** 76, as writer, over 3 titles - **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 84 (3), 2010s 94 (1), 2020s 56 (2) - **Fi1m against the critics:** 76 to 65 across 3 titles - **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 0 at 60–79, 1 under 60 - **Genres:** Comedy 3, Drama 2, Crime 1, Sport 1 - **Screen time:** 3 hours of reviewed films - **Box office:** $24m across 2 films with figures - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain_Morris, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5980564, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0606597/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/84740 ## Streaming the US now - **Amazon Prime Video:** [*The Inbetweeners*](https://film.one/tv/the-inbetweeners.md) (84) - **HBO Max:** [*Flight of the Conchords*](https://film.one/tv/flight-of-the-conchords.md) (84) - **Apple TV:** [*Time Bandits*](https://film.one/tv/time-bandits-2024.md) (62) - **Disney+:** [*Next Goal Wins*](https://film.one/film/next-goal-wins.md) (50) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Iain Morris > Iain Morris is at his funniest when young men make an ordinary conversation needlessly humiliating. His work with Damon Beesley gets the bragging and betrayals right; the girls deserve more attention, and broader stories suit him less reliably. In *The Inbetweeners* (2008), the boys can wreck their chances with a girl simply by talking in front of one another. Iain Morris and co-creator Damon Beesley know how quickly the wish to impress becomes a public embarrassment. We laughed at their cruelty to one another, then caught ourselves enjoying it almost as much as they did. The insults work because each boy has friends ready to encourage him into something foolish. Morris is at his funniest when nobody needs to leave the sixth form for a disaster to happen. Morris began in comedy as a producer and script editor; he also wrote for *Flight of the Conchords* (2007). Its songs make the deadpan performances of Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement funnier, though the ordinary plots can test our patience between numbers. His partnership with Beesley is where his comic habits become easier to identify. They develop characters and stories face-to-face before scripting, a sensible method for comedy in which the response to a boast matters as much as the boast itself. The first *Inbetweeners* film (2011) and *The Inbetweeners 2* (2014) took those characters into features; Morris co-wrote both and co-directed the second. Those films had firmly established voices to draw on. In the original series, though, the girls receive too little attention and the bodily humour sometimes settles for bluntness. A little more curiosity about the girls would have made this a richer comedy without requiring the boys to become any wiser. *Next Goal Wins* (2023), co-written with Taika Waititi, is less satisfying. The team that lost 31–0 and kept turning up has to give way to Michael Fassbender's coach, who receives too much of the film's attention. Yet Kaimana's Jaiyah is treated with care: being fa’afafine troubles the coach, not the island community. That care matters, but the kindness and occasional good joke cannot compensate for spending so little time with the team. For an evening with Morris, we would choose the boys making fools of themselves in *The Inbetweeners*. ## Biography Iain Morris is an English writer and director. He created the E4 sitcom *The Inbetweeners* (2008–2010) with his writing partner Damon Beesley, and has written and directed its two feature films, *The Inbetweeners Movie* (2011) and *The Inbetweeners 2* (2014). Morris wrote two episodes of the HBO series *Flight of the Conchords* (2007–2009). He co-wrote the screenplay for Taika Waititi's *Next Goal Wins* (2023) and co-created and wrote the BBC series *The First Team* (2020). Other credits include writing for *What We Do in the Shadows* (2019) and directing *The Festival* (2018) and the series *Time Bandits* (2024). *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (6) ### Performed in (1) - *Look Around You* (2002), Fi1m 83, as Sports Teacher — [page](https://film.one/tv/look-around-you.md) ### Directed (2) - *Time Bandits* (2024), Fi1m 62, Executive Producer, Writer, Director, Creator — [page](https://film.one/tv/time-bandits-2024.md) - *The Inbetweeners* (2008), Fi1m 84, Creator, Executive Producer, Writer, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-inbetweeners.md) ### Wrote (3) — the average rests on these - *Next Goal Wins* (2023), Fi1m 50, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/next-goal-wins.md) - *Four Lions* (2010), Fi1m 94, Script Consultant — [page](https://film.one/film/four-lions.md) - *Flight of the Conchords* (2007), Fi1m 84, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/flight-of-the-conchords.md) ## Complete filmography (24) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *My Oxford Year* (2025), Director - *Time Bandits* (2024), series, as Duelling Second · Executive Producer, Director, Writer, Creator — Fi1m 62, [page](https://film.one/tv/time-bandits-2024.md) - *Next Goal Wins* (2023), Screenplay — Fi1m 50, [page](https://film.one/film/next-goal-wins.md) - *Murderville* (2022), series, Director - *The First Team* (2020), series, Director, Executive Producer, Writer, Creator - *What We Do in the Shadows* (2019), series, Writer, Consulting Producer - *The Festival* (2018), Director - *Ill Behaviour* (2017), series, Executive Producer - *White Gold* (2017), series, Executive Producer - *The Inbetweeners 2* (2014), Writer, Director - *The Inbetweeners* (2012), series, Original Series Creator, Executive Producer, Director - *Jimmy Carr: Being Funny* (2011), Executive Producer - *The Inbetweeners Movie* (2011), Writer, Executive Producer - *Four Lions* (2010), Script Consultant — Fi1m 94, [page](https://film.one/film/four-lions.md) - *The Persuasionists* (2010), series, Executive Producer - *Zebra's Striber* (2009), Director - *Free Agents* (2009), series, Producer - *Jimmy Carr: In Concert* (2008), Executive Producer - *The Inbetweeners* (2008), series, Writer, Executive Producer, Director, Creator — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-inbetweeners.md) - *Angelo's* (2007), series, Executive Producer - *Flight of the Conchords* (2007), series, Writer — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/flight-of-the-conchords.md) - *Jimmy Carr: Stand Up* (2005), Executive Producer - *Look Around You* (2002), series, as Sports Teacher, ROPRA Employee — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/tv/look-around-you.md) - *The Inbetweeners 3*, Writer, Director, Executive Producer, Original Series Creator --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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