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Eat the Rich (1987)

 -  Action | Comedy | Crime  -  1987 (UK)
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Alex is a disgruntled waitress at a snobby exclusive restaurant who falls on hard times. Forced to deal with the contempt and disgust of the upper class, Alex & cohorts attempt to go on a ... See full summary »

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Waiter 1
Ronald Allen ...
Cmdr. Fortune
Dave Beard ...
Gen. Karpov
Rowena Bently ...
Indecisive Girlfriend
Angela Bowie ...
Henry's Wife
Simon Brint ...
Dickie
Rene Bruchet ...
Janet
Les Bubb ...
Waiter
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Katrin
Robert Carwithen ...
Robert
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Jeremy
Miles A. Copeland III ...
Derek
Hugh Cornwell ...
Edgeley
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Alex is a disgruntled waitress at a snobby exclusive restaurant who falls on hard times. Forced to deal with the contempt and disgust of the upper class, Alex & cohorts attempt to go on a rampage. Meanwhile, General Karprov and Spider plot to involve the inept anarchists into their plans to derail the prime-minister-to-be's campaign. Written by Jeff Mercer <riffer@afn.org>

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1987 (UK)  »

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Comendo os Ricos  »

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Alex: It's amazing how a few minutes with a gun can change your life.
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Needs a Fuller Entree
17 June 2003 | by (Chicago, Illinois) – See all my reviews

Extremely garish mixture of loud music, ugly visuals, and shock comedy. The story is basically about a waiter (a gay man with a real fun bitchy attitude) who gets fired when he refuses to suck up to the arrogant clientele. He gets revenge by banding together other misfits who return and kill everybody. They then feed the dead bodies to new unsuspecting patrons.

Sounds gross and tasteless, but it really isn't. There's no nudity or sex. No graphic violence or gore. A little bit more of these things would have actually helped. At least it would have solidified it as the underground shock comedy it seems to be striving to be. Instead it seems very cluttered with no real objective or foundation. At times it plays like biting social commentary other times nothing more then a silly gross out teen flick

By the time you get to the way off base ending it becomes obvious that the filmmakers were trying to be outrageous simply as a way to get noticed. There is no real insight to the have and have nots of society. They simply came upon the idea because they felt it would appeal to the type of audience they were looking for.

This is too bad because had it been a little more polished it might have been a stronger film. Believe it or not there are some clever bits. The jabs at the queen are a riot. The scene involving terrorism and the middle east crisis is a true original. The rich characters are so over the top obnoxious you have to laugh out loud.

The true scene stealer though is Nosher Powell. He is a former stunt man/ stunt coordinator who worked on many of the stunts in the early James Bond movies. Here he plays a sort of Teddy Roosevelt times ten. A 'working class' politician who bullies everyone and everything. The actor has a rather rough, amateurish delivery which only adds to the saltiness of the character.


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