Love, Honour and Obey (2000)

Directors:

Dominic Anciano
Ray Burdis

Writers:

Dominic Anciano (writer)
Ray Burdis (writer)

Release Date:

9 February 2001 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama | Crime

Plot:

A north London postman who gets involved with a gang of criminals

Plot Keywords:

Gang Member | Cocaine | Cockney Gangster | Stabbed In The Stomach | Anal Sex

Cast

Sadie Frost	...	Sadie
Jonny Lee Miller	...	Jonny
Jude Law	...	Jude
Ray Winstone	...	Ray Kreed
Kathy Burke	...	Kathy
Sean Pertwee	...	Sean
Denise Van Outen	...	Maureen
Rhys Ifans	...	Matthew
Dominic Anciano	...	Dominic
Ray Burdis	...	Ray
John Beckett	...	John
Trevor Laird	...	Trevor (as Trevor H. Laird)
William Scully	...	Bill
Perry Benson	...	Perry 'Fat Alan'
Mark Burdis	...	Mark

Also Known As:

Love, Honor and Obey (USA)
Love, Honour & Obey (UK) (alternative title)

MPAA:

Rated R for strong violence, sexuality, language and some drug content.

Runtime:

103 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Certification:

Iceland:16 | Argentina:16 | Australia:MA | Finland:K-15 | France:-12 | New Zealand:R18 | UK:18 | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Buxton Rd, Stratford, Newham, London, England, UK

Company:

British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

Trivia:

Rhys Ifans and Denise Van Outen are the only members of the main cast to play characters whose names are different from their own real names.

Goofs:

Continuity: When Sadie is singing, her tiara disappears for one shot.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Heckeler: So would you like to join us for a drink?
Sadie: Sorry mates I'm busy.
Heckeler: I tell you what, tell me about your character, 'cause I am your biggest fan
Sadie: I told you I'm busy, I'm waiting for someone.
Heckeler: Now, when you stage kiss, do you use tounges or no tounges?
Sadie: Look, you.
Heckeler: [laughs] Come on, I'm only having a joke
Sadie: Oh, Look. My boyfriends here.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Dog Soldiers (2002)

Soundtrack:

Fireball XL5

An under-appreciated comic gem

This film opened in London in April 2000 and was roundly panned as inept and self-indulgent. The 'Time Out' reviewer professed annoyance at the script's instant-classic nonsense line: 'Don't mac me off like a two-bob,' a imaginary bit of Sarf London street jargon. But the film's Jabberwocky dialogue is an essential part of its charm. It's a takeoff on cockney gangster films (Raymond Creed, head wideboy, is loosely modeled on Reg Kray, and is even mistakenly called 'Kray' in the DVD subtitling) and the violence is about as fearsome as that of a Roadrunner cartoon.

The best bits are tasteless and edgy, and certainly not everyone's cup of tea. A pathetic fat little hanger-on (Fat Alan) is forever being stabbed, clubbed, and tortured, or force-fed microdot LSD and made to eat dogfood. Another whingy gang member is chronically impotent and always being offered 'helpful' sexual advice from his colleague, who explains at one point how erections are caused by the penis bone being thrust forward from the spinal column during a state of sexual excitement.