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Released: |
1988 |
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Genre: |
BLACK COMEDY
CRIME
COMEDY
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US |
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Length: |
108 |
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Strait-laced English barrister (John Cleese) is lured into a life of crime.
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Reviewed by Chris Tookey
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Mean-spirited, cruel but (sporadically) very funny comedy which won international success by telling everyone what hell it is to be English. Though almost 80, Charles Crichton directs with pace and panache; the performances (especially Kevin Klines) are funny; and several set-pieces - notably the one where Cleese is caught with more than his trousers down - are bliss. |
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"A very nasty film. It is brutal, lustful, sadistic - in short, it has all the elements of comedy. Look at Rambo. " |
(John Cleese, actor/ writer) |
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