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6.0/10   399 votes
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Director:
Michael Tuchner
Writers:
Andrew Marshall (writer)
David Renwick (writer)
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Release Date:
10 May 1990 (West Germany) more
Genre:
Comedy | Crime more
Tagline:
Has the shocking truth about Henry Wilt been inflated? more
Plot:
Henry Wilt is a more or less failed teacher who fantasizes about murdering his dominant, non-attentive wife Eva... more | add synopsis
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Too family-friendly more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Griff Rhys Jones ... Henry Wilt
Mel Smith ... Inspector Flint
Alison Steadman ... Eva Wilt
Diana Quick ... Sally
Jeremy Clyde ... Hugh
Roger Allam ... Dave
David Ryall ... Rev. Froude
Roger Lloyd-Pack ... Dr. Pittman
Dermot Crowley ... Braintree
John Normington ... Treadaway
Tony Mathews ... Gladden
Charles Lawson ... Cranham
Gabrielle Blunt ... Mrs. Bulstrode
Edward Clayton ... Mossop
Jeffrey Chiswick ... Macari (as Geoffrey Chiswick)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Misadventures of Mr. Wilt (USA)
Wilt (Australia)
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Runtime:
92 min
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Eastmancolor)
Sound Mix:
Dolby

Fun Stuff

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[Henry has arrived at the church, looking for Eva]
Henry Wilt: Why didn't I sign my own name. I'd be safely locked up in Broadmoor by now!
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8 out of 11 people found the following comment useful:-
Too family-friendly, 9 May 1999
6/10
Author: Stefan Kahrs from Canterbury, England

I was looking forward to this film, because I'm a big fan of Tom Sharpe's novels. At the same time I was rather apprehensive as well. This is a comedy, and comedy movies are made these days with a family audience in mind. Tom Sharpe's novel Wilt certainly does not fit into this bracket and so I expected some dreaded compromises.

Inevitably, they came. Of course, the film still has a US R-rating and a UK 15 rating, but this has more to do with the intrinsic adult nature of the basic material than with the film makers' attempts to preserve the spirit of the novel. The whole thing still felt much too sanitised, too toned down, too understated. Part of the problem might have been that filming faithfully the original story would have made some middle-aged established actors and actresses occasionally prance around in the buff, simulate drug abuse, and molest each other, but the story really needed a higher dosage of excessiveness.

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