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5 May 1989 (USA)
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Gavin is 31... and a virgin. One wild night and three woman later, he's finally... Getting It Right. more
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Gavin is 31 years old and still lives with his parents. He is awfully shy but before he knows it there are three women interested in him...
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(3 articles)
Adapt This: 'Army@Love' By Rick Veitch & Gary Erskine
(From MTV Splash Page. 18 November 2009, 12:41 PM, PST)
Getting It Right the First Time: Incorporating Data Tools Into Marketing Campaigns
(From Fast Company. 23 July 2009, 12:30 PM, PDT)
(From MTV Splash Page. 18 November 2009, 12:41 PM, PST)
Getting It Right the First Time: Incorporating Data Tools Into Marketing Campaigns
(From Fast Company. 23 July 2009, 12:30 PM, PDT)
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Helena Bonham Carter plays... Green Day's Billy Armstrong...?
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Jesse Birdsall | ... | Gavin Lamb | |
| Jane Horrocks | ... | Jenny | |
| Helena Bonham Carter | ... | Lady Minerva Munday | |
| Pat Heywood | ... | Mrs. Lamb | |
| Bryan Pringle | ... | Mr. Lamb | |
| Lynn Redgrave | ... | Joan | |
| Richard Huw | ... | Harry | |
| John Gielgud | ... | Sir Gordon Munday | |
| Judy Parfitt | ... | Lady Stella Munday | |
| Peter Cook | ... | Mr. Adrian | |
| Shirley Anne Field | ... | Anne | |
| Ian Redford | ... | Bill | |
| Kevin Drinkwater | ... | Winthrop | |
| Rupert Holliday-Evans | ... | Peter | |
| June Ellis | ... | Mrs. Wagstaffe |
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USA:102 min
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Cameo: [Elizabeth Jane Howard]party-goer
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Piano Concerto No. 14 in Flat Major K. 499
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This sort of innocent-shy-guy-finds-a-girl (or innocent-shy-girl-finds-a-guy) shtick has been done before, and better. This laughless but somewhat watchable comedy drifts into many sub-plots, a lot of them not particularly interesting, and gets occasionally soppy even. The lead character is okay, and Horrocks is the only bright spot in a largely bland cast. Some characterizations are messy and too clichéd, for example Bonham-Carter's. She is 23 here, but she looks not a day older than 14. (In fact, she looks so much like Billy Armstrong, the man-boy singer from Green Day.) She actually shows her breasts here - a pitiful pair, indeed; no wonder she does costume dramas, and not thrillers where she'd get screwed all over the furniture by Michael Douglas. As an actress she is overrated - not a common thing with British actors, who are generally very good. But getting into show-biz was easy for her - her grandfather was the British Prime Minister(!) and her uncle a director; under such circumstances a girl need not have either a presentable pair of boobs or more than average talent.
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