Okay, we need to put our heads together here. Remember, it's less than 20 years old, but wasn't made in the '90's or '00's, which means that it must have been made between 1986 and 1989. It's a British film and the director is famous (note that the director might not necessarily be British). It isn't a comedy and didn't take place in the past, which rules out Terry Gilliam's The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, along with anything directed by Terry Gilliam (he didn't direct anything else in that narrow time frame, much less a non-comedy). I sincerely doubt that Joe Don Baker is in it. Look at how many narrowing factors there are! Really, the specificness of how much we know about the movie is making it hard! Think about this one...really, really hard.