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6.3/10   189 votes
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Writer:
Jack Rosenthal (writer)
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Release Date:
2003 (UK) more
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Plot:
An extra in a TV drama is finally given a line to say. He goes on to cause mounting chaos. | add synopsis
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Brilliant more (3 total)

Cast

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Mike Hayley ... Henry
Amanda Holden ... Herself
Tom Courtenay ... Joe McGill
Sandra Voe ... Nancy McGill

Paul Butterworth ... Milkman
Tamsin Greig ... Lianne
Ben Whishaw ... Bruno
Sally Phillips ... Kelly

Bill Nighy ... Phil Parish
Philip Davis ... Denis
Sam Kelly ... Edgar
Stewart Wright ... Geoff
Paul Broughton ... Tommy
Gemma Catlin ... Alison
Claudie Blakley ... Deirdre
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Brazil:95 min
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Quotes:
[after a disastrous morning, the producer asks the director how much of this morning's filming he has actually completed]
Roland: So you've shot *nothing* all morning?
Phil Parish: Not yet.
Roland: Nothing of Scene 23?
Phil Parish: Not yet.
Roland: None of it?
Phil Parish: Not yet.
Roland: You've shot the master shot? You must have.
Phil Parish: [to Kelly] Tell him "not yet". I can't say it again - my brain's trapped.
Roland: So what the hell have you been doing?
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15 out of 19 people found the following comment useful.
Brilliant, 16 September 2004
10/10
Author: jupiter-3840 from Spain

Brilliant, better than the 1970's TV original version. Superb cast, particularly Tom Courtenay and Bill Nighy. The four way dialogue in the bus regarding a suggestion for a new TV series (twin brothers, Civil Engineers, building a bridge) ("What, no Doctors, policemen, shagging?") was superb, apart from crystallising what the viewing public wants. Whether Jack Rosenthal updated the story for 2003 I do not know but it had class written all over it. Shown on Sky Movies, and will therefore presumably be repeated. Don't miss it, and if it is ever released as a DVD buy or rent it.

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