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Director:
Writer:
Michael Frayn (original screenplay)
Release Date:
10 October 1986 (USA)
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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
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Impeccably executed British Comedy classic. Timeless.
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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 |
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Runtime:
96 min
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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
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Trivia:
The headmaster was on his way to the fictitious University of Norwich. A University of East Anglia in Norwich *does* exist, but the film was not shot there.
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Goofs:
Continuity: When Laura's parents dash off to Norwich on the motorcycle, Laura's father is wearing a helmet, but not her mother. At the Head Master Conference, Laura's mother is carrying a yellow motorcycle helmet, similar to the one her husband is wearing, in her hands.
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Quotes:
Brian Stimpson:
The first step to knowing who we are... is knowing where we are and... WHEN we are.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in What the Pythons Did Next... (2007) (TV)
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Soundtrack:
This Is My Lovely Day
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There are a great many films which are painful in their bland mainstreaminess.
And a very few which manage to pull it off, and remain funny to virtually everyone, over a period of several years.
This John Cleese vehicle from the mid 1980s manages to fit into the latter category - it is simply such a very well crafted traditional comedy, that it is impossible not to be touched.
Here we see Cleese very much in Basil Fawlty mode, as an aspiring head-teacher for whom things just don't run smooth when it really matters.
The other classic elements of British Farce are there - major misunderstandings, people getting undresses, well-intentioned old ladies who say the wrong things at the wrong times, and of course Geoffrey Palmer as a straight man.
And just a touch of poignant surrealism in the way the final minute leading into the credits is played out, to offset the traditional production values.
It's straightforward, and unchallenging, and probably the best film about lateness ever made. High praise indeed, for something so mainstream.