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10 May 1990 (West Germany) moreTagline:
Has the shocking truth about Henry Wilt been inflated? morePlot:
Henry Wilt is a more or less failed teacher who fantasizes about murdering his dominant, non-attentive wife Eva... more | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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Too family-friendly moreCast
(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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92 minCountry:
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Color (Eastmancolor)Sound Mix:
DolbyFilming Locations:
Middlesex Polytechnic, Bounds Green, London, England, UKFun 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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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.