Getting It Right (1989)

Director:

Randal Kleiser

Writer:

Elizabeth Jane Howard (screenplay)

Release Date:

5 May 1989 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama

Tagline:

Gavin is 31... and a virgin. One wild night and three woman later, he's finally... Getting It Right.

Plot:

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...

Plot Keywords:

Barbershop | Virgin | Virginity | Hairdresser | Nudity

Cast

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

Runtime:

USA:102 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Fujicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Ultra Stereo

Certification:

Sweden:Btl | UK:15 | USA:R | West Germany:12

Company:

Management Company Entertainment Group (MCEG)

Trivia:

Cameo: [Elizabeth Jane Howard]party-goer

Quotes:

Joan: Gavin ... don't worry so much about being loved. Worry about loving. It's ever so much more important.

Soundtrack:

Piano Concerto No. 14 in Flat Major K. 499

Helena Bonham Carter plays... Green Day's Billy Armstrong...?

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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