Bernard Bottle, a mild mannered art buyer, is fired by his greedy boss, abandoned by his girlfriend and discovers a genie in an old bottle. The genie immediately embraces the modern world and helps Bernard on the side.
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Title: Bernard and the Genie (TV Movie 1991)
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| Lenny Henry | ... | Josephus the Genie | |
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John Gabriel | ... | Wizard |
| Alan Cumming | ... | Bernard Bottle | |
| Rowan Atkinson | ... | Charles Pinkworth | |
| Denis Lill | ... | Frank Kepple (as Dennis Lill) | |
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Beaux Bryant | ... | Nurse |
| Kevin Allen | ... | Kevin | |
| Andrée Bernard | ... | Judy | |
| Melvyn Bragg | ... | Melvyn Bragg | |
| Janet Henfrey | ... | Miss Purse | |
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Marcia Ashton | ... | Miss Temple |
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Sheila Latimer | ... | Bernard's Mother |
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Sally Geoghegan | ... | Waitress |
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Angela Clarke | ... | Carrie (as Angie Clarke) |
| Bob Geldof | ... | Bob Geldof | |
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An art dealer befriends a genie whom he frees from a lamp which he has been imprisoned with by an evil wizard for 2000 years for the accidental death of the evil wizard's daughter when the art dealer is fired by his greedy and corrupt boss. Written by Daniel Williamson
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genie | wish | magical carpet | english subtitles in original | wish fulfillment |Certificate:
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Bernard Bottle: Like Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Genie: Yes, but with smaller pectorals.
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It was this film, part of the BBC's TV movie strand 'Screen One' that convinced Richard Curtis that a TV budget could let a theatrical quality film be made and released and soon after he began work on 'Four Weddings And A Funeral'. See more »Goofs
Josephus is shocked to hear that Julius Caesar and Marcus Brutus are both dead, but he also claims to have been a friend of Jesus Christ. However, Caesar and Brutus both died over forty years before Jesus is said to have been born. See more »Quotes
Genie: One day I was in the Temple when they tried to turn it into a supermarket; Jesus went in there and kicked ass!Bernard Bottle: Like Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Genie: Yes, but with smaller pectorals.
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13 December 1992 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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It has everything you need in a Christmas film- laughs, tears, a good message, and every Christmas song known to man! Me and my sister still love it and watch it every year at Christmas. It doesn't seem to have been shown on British TV since we recorded back in the early nineties. They really need to show it again so they can introduce a whole new legion of fans to Bernard Bottle. The video is really rare, I paid £40 for it, and now I discover there is a DVD. Bum! But its still amazing. I have seen it so much that when I now hear 'Lonely This Christmas' I expect a bauble to smash after the words "and an unlit Christmas tree" ! "he's Mr success, he's higher than high, he's sweeter than the sweetest cherry pie"