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Writer (WGA):
William Goldman (written by)
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Release Date:
24 April 1992 (USA) more
Tagline:
A comedy about romance and other perilous adventures. more
Plot:
An extremely rare bottle of wine (bottled during the appearance of the Great Comet of 1811) is discovered... more | add synopsis
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Cast

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Penelope Ann Miller ... Margaret Harwood

Tim Daly ... Oliver Plexico
Louis Jourdan ... Philippe
Art Malik ... Nico
Ian Richardson ... Sir Mason Harwood

Ian McNeice ... Ian

Tim Bentinck ... Richard Harwood (as Timothy Bentinck)
Julia McCarthy ... Landlady
Jacques Mathou ... Doctor Roget
Arturo Venegas ... Luis
Chapman Roberts ... John

Nick Brimble ... Jamie
Andrew Robertson ... Scottish Farmer
Shane Rimmer ... T.T. Kelleher
Nicholas Ward Jackson ... Snobbish Wine Taster
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Runtime:
91 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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Trivia:
Robert Hardy was listed in UK trades when production started as being in this project more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Seinfeld: The Calzone (#7.19)" (1996) more
Soundtrack:
EINEKLEINE NACHTMUSIK more

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Death, Death, Death, 7 June 2008
Author: jstrewth (jstrewth@hotmail.com) from Rancho Cucamonga, CA, United States

In his book "Which Lie Did I Tell?", screenwriter William (The Princess Bride) Goldman talked in detail about how this film became doomed after a sneak preview screening ended with nearly the entire audience fleeing the theater by the half-hour mark (or so I remember reading).

While this film isn't as bad as it sounded, I still gave up on it halfway through.

To paraphrase The Unknown Movies website, it's rather hard to tell whether Goldman wanted to ape Romancing the Stone (a much better film, of course), especially considering he has long criticized Hollywood for avoiding original stories. On the other hand, the finished film seemed unbelievably rushed; it's as if I was watching a movie on television that had already joined in progress following a baseball game, or something.

So yeah, don't bother, unless you're really curious. I'll leave you with one amusing thing, however: when I turned off the tape, it was during the scene where Penelope Ann Miller and Tim Daly were in the helicopter as it was spiraling down to its doom; I just turned it off and quipped, "And the helicopter crashed and they both died. The end."

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