Advantages: Unexpectedly funny, and it's based on a true story Disadvantages: Some may find the toilet humour a bit puerile, I suppose
...johns and sock suspenders, extolling the virtues of vegetarianism and colonic irrigation and electric shock treatment, but for some reason I never got around to watching it.
That’s the beauty of television though – you’re at a loose end one evening, and lo and behold, you happen to glance at the listings and a film just jumps out at you... and if you like plenty of puerile humour (fart jokes, perverted German doctors, basically ... ...present), then this is the film for you. I enjoyed it, and what really surprised me was the strength of the cast – Anthony Hopkins, John Cusack, Matthew Broderick, Dana Carvey, Bridget Fonda and a host of other familiar faces playing it for laughs and clearly enjoying themselves.
Broderick and Fonda play an unhappy couple, William and Eleanor Lightbody, who are on their way to Battle Creek to visit the fabled Sanitarium run by Dr. John Harvey ...
JVL 22.07.2002 (24.07.2002)
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