Advantages: Funny Disadvantages: Possibly a bit dated now?
..."Eat the Rich" is a sharp comedy from the increasingly ambitious "Comic Strip" stable. The story concerns the attempts of waiter Lanah Pellay to get back at society, by opening a restaurant called "Eat the Rich"; this immediate success attracts hundreds of well-off clients, who seem to miss the significance of the restaurant's name.
The film is stolen though by Pellay's nemesis Nosher Powell, who plays one of the most disgusting creations in modern cinema - a slob and a thug, a government minister who discharges his responsibilities by getting drunk and trying to get off with the Queen. Powell becomes a tabloid hero, whose rise to fame is hindered only by Pellay's revolutionary antics.
If the restaurant itself is a bit over the top and unconvincing, the film nevertheless succeeds in hitting all its targets, and there are many...
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Advantages: Realism films can be a humbling experience Disadvantages: Sometime sordid and brutal reality
...With films like 'Poor Cow','Kes','Family Life' under his belt, 'My name is Joe,' is another of Ken Loach's look at social realism.
Do-gooder and recovering alcoholic,Joe,has spent the best part of a decade crawling back from his addiction. Peter Mullan who plays Joe, won the best actor prize at Cannes for his performance.
On the dole and living in a soul destroying Glasgow estate, he passes time by coaching youngsters each week. It's during this activity he meets children's health visitor, Sarah played by Louise Goodall on her check on one of Joe's friends kids.
After a vitriolic exchange Joe bumps into Sarah again and offers to wallpaper her residence and this causes someone to call in the unemployment inspectors for working while claiming benefit.
Sarah manages to get him off by writing to the authorities explaining he was never...
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...episodes youll have to buy the DVD.
I would recomend this to anyone who likes the Simpsons or enjoys comedys.
Special features:
Scene selection
Special guests:
President Clinton
Senitor Bob Dole
Pierce Brosnan
Harry Potter...
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18.09.2001
07.05.2006
