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Sammy and Rosie Get Laid (1987)
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Hanif Kureishi (writer)
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30 October 1987 (USA)
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As London burns...
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Sammy and Rosie are an unconventional middle-class London married couple. They live in the midst of inner-city chaos...
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a mess of a movie, head and shoulders above the usual Hollywood dreckarhea
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Shashi Kapoor | ... | Rafi Rahman | |
| Frances Barber | ... | Rosie Hobbs | |
| Claire Bloom | ... | Alice | |
| Ayub Khan-Din | ... | Sammy | |
| Roland Gift | ... | Danny / Victoria | |
| Wendy Gazelle | ... | Anna | |
| Suzette Llewellyn | ... | Vivia | |
| Meera Syal | ... | Rani | |
| Badi Uzzaman | ... | Ghost | |
| Tessa Wojtczak | ... | Bridget | |
| Emer Gillespie | ... | Eva | |
| Lesley Manville | ... | Margy | |
| Mark Sproston | ... | Young Policeman | |
| Cynthia Powell | ... | Woman in Kitchen | |
| Dennis Conlon | ... | Asian Shopkeeper |
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Sammy and Rosie (Canada: English title)
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Germany:101 min | USA:100 min | Argentina:101 min
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During its initial release, many American newspapers would not run ads with the full title. Ads would show "Sammy and Rosie" printed at the top of a poster, with the bottom part shredded up.
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I Vow to Thee My Country
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OK, I'm predjudiced. I love English cinema. This might not be the best, but I"ve watched it a few times, and I like it better each time.
Hanif Kureishi the chronicler of Indians, Pakistanis, and their love/hate relationship with England, can't be blamed for all the confusion. Stephen Frears and his editor come in for some of the blame. And I wonder how the actors go about their jobs? I mean, we see the final print, and get some sense of what the writing and directorial team had in mind, But sometimes the actors get only their scene to learn; some later scenes are filmed first, probably to save money on certain location shots, and some of the actors are doing theatre gigs and are only available certain times. You think you have problems? This is basically your average bleeding heart liberal 60's/90's epic. The poor are pushed to violent revolution by an uncaring conservative government that sends them checks every week, so they can dress in garish costumes, march in parades, playing instruments they never bothered to learn... why trouble a child with lessons and practicing when all these hippy darlings want to experience, is the pure joy of a child the first time it is given an instrument? The cast is peopled with the great actors from India who would be better known if they had Anglicised names. I've seen these guys a lot and I apoligise to them, but there's no way my attention deficit mind can remember their names. Anyway, it's a beautiful mess that begins to make sense after two or three viewings.