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Overview
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Director:
Writer:
Michael Frayn (original screenplay)
Release Date:
10 October 1986 (USA) more
Tagline:
If you've ever been late... you'll know what this film is all about!
Plot:
An uncompromising British school headmaster finds himself beset by one thing going wrong after another. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
1 win more
User Comments:
Right! Left? Right! No, left! more (43 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | John Cleese | ... | Brian Stimpson |
 | Penny Leatherbarrow | ... | Woman Teacher |
| Howard Lloyd-Lewis | ... | Ted |
| Jonathan Bowater | ... | Clint |
| Stephen Moore | ... | Mr. Jolly |
| Alison Steadman | ... | Gwenda Stimpson |
| Mark Bunting | ... | Studious Boy |
| Robert Wilkinson | ... | Streaker |
| John Bardon | ... | Ticket Collector |
| Mark Burdis | ... | Glen Scully |
| Nadia Sawalha | ... | Mandy Kostakis (as Nadia Carina) |
| Dickie Arnold | ... | Man at Station |
| Angus MacKay | ... | First Class Passenger |
| Peter Needham | ... | Porter |
| Peter Lorenzelli | ... | Taxi Driver |
Additional Details
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Runtime:
96 min
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Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.66 : 1 more
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Certification:
Iceland:L | Singapore:PG | Australia:G | Netherlands:AL | Denmark:A | Norway:7 (TV rating) | Finland:S | Norway:A | Sweden:Btl | UK:PG | USA:PG | West Germany:12
Filming Locations:
Cottingham Road, Kingston-upon-Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK more
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Trivia:
The school where Stimpson is headmaster is named after Thomas Tompion (1639-1713), a famous clockmaker. more
Goofs:
Continuity: The headrests in Gwenda's car disappear then reappear between shots as she is leaving the railway station. more
Quotes:
[Mr. Stimpston is looking for a tractor]
Ivan with the Tractor:
Hey, guess what I'm sitting on!
Brian Stimpson:
A bomb, I hope!
[walks away]
Ivan with the Tractor:
Alright then. You go that way and I'll go this way, and I'll bet you this jam tart... that I'll find a tractor first.
[drives away on tractor]
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in What the Pythons Did Next... (2007) (TV) more
Soundtrack:
This Is My Lovely Day more
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A scrupulously punctual headmaster in an English comprehensive school sets off for the Headmaster's Conference to deliver a keynote speech. One little slip sees him boarding the wrong train, which leads to a chain of consequences conspiring to keep him from his goal. This is one of the finest farces I've ever seen brought to the screen, written naturally enough by theatre farce-meister Michael Frayn. The frenetic energy of John Cleese in his prime really lifts this above the norm, as he hitches a ride with a student, bumps into and kidnaps an ex-girlfriend and winds up naked in a monastery. The climactic scenes at the HMC amount to perhaps the finest pay-off seen in farce. This is, indeed, a historic moment.