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3 December 2004 (UK) moreTagline:
He's got the tool and he'll finish the job. moreAwards:
1 nomination moreUser Comments:
Should have been good, but isn't more (37 total)Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Jon Culshaw | ... | Prime Minister | |
| Tom Clarke Hill | ... | Lieutenant Baker (as Tom Clarke-Hill) | |
| Hamish McColl | ... | Captain Davies | |
| Christian Slater | ... | Winston Churchill | |
| Romany Malco | ... | Denzil Eisenhower | |
| Simon Rake | ... | Reporter 1 | |
| James Long | ... | Reporter 2 | |
| James Putnam | ... | Reporter 3 (as James Puttnam) | |
| Bob Mortimer | ... | Potter | |
| Vic Reeves | ... | Bendle | |
| Neve Campbell | ... | Princess Elizabeth | |
| Harry Enfield | ... | King George VI | |
| Jessica Oyelowo | ... | Princess Margaret | |
| Leslie Phillips | ... | Lord W'ruff | |
| Nigel Harrison | ... | Jack |
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1.85 : 1 moreCertification:
Indonesia:Dewasa | Iceland:12 | Australia:M | Netherlands:12 | South Korea:15 | Finland:K-11 | UK:15Fun Stuff
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On the DVD commentary during the scene where US Churchill and Denzil Eisenhower exit the British War Office: director, Peter Richardson, dubs, "This is very r... relevant to the Iraq War". moreGoofs:
Crew or equipment visible: A mat can be seen to cushion Jim Charoo's fall onto the railway track. moreQuotes:
Radio Presenter: And, oh, here comes Satan. I mean, Josef Goebbels. Dressed in a magnificent black cloak, and horns. moreSoundtrack:
The Washing on the Siegfried Line moreFAQ
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For a long time now, Hollywood have overblown things, messed with facts and just generally not been all that honest with what has made it to the screen.. You can imagine then, the producers of Churchill - The Hollywood Years sat around thinking of ways to play with this idea. Making a send-up of Hollywood by casting Christian Slater as William Churchill must have seemed like a grand idea, and after seeing the trailer I was very much all for it...but it's safe to say that the film has missed the mark, and all Churchill - The Hollywood Years really is, is a bottom drawer action spoof with very little in the way of redeeming features or funny ideas. The film basically has one running joke, which is never good for a film; but it's especially rubbish when you realise that this joke isn't even capitalised on to the extent that it could have been. The film seems to be happy to just rely on giggles rather than big laughs, and only about half of these giggles work; and only about a quarter of the ones that work garner any kind of substantial laugh factor. This film isn't exactly sidesplitting.
One thing that definitely is to this movie's credit is the casting of Christian Slater in the lead role. Slater has made a lot of rubbish lately, and while this film isn't good; at least he's good in it. Slater gives Winston Churchill just the right essence of the standard 'American hero' and seeing him "kick butt" is always a pleasure. Well...it would be if the action sequences weren't so tacky. It's more local theatre than Hollywood. One miscasting is Neve Campbell as the queen of Britain. I'm a fan of Neve, and liked her a lot in the likes of 'Scream' and 'Wild Things', but here she just makes a fool of herself. Her British accent is stupid in the extreme and her performance isn't convincing at all. Like many British productions, this one has hired just about every British comedian going for various roles, and this doesn't do the film any favours in my opinion. Their caricatures are largely unfunny and it's obvious that they're only in the film so that they've got something to do. It's a huge shame that this film isn't very good as it could have been a nice little parody. Oh well.