Guest House Paradiso (1999)

Richard "Richie" Twat and Edward "Eddie" Elizabeth Ndingombaba are two losers who run Guest House Paradiso, the worst hotel in the UK. Guest House Paradiso is next-door to a nuclear power ... See full summary »

Director:

Adrian Edmondson

Writers:

Adrian Edmondson, Rik Mayall

Stars:

Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson, Bill Nighy

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Rik Mayall	...	Richard Twat
Adrian Edmondson	...	Eddie Elizabeth Ndingombaba
Bill Nighy	...	Mr. Johnson
Kate Ashfield	...	Mrs. Hardy
Steven O'Donnell	...	Chef (as Steve O'Donnell)
Fenella Fielding	...	Mrs. Foxfur
Charles Cartmell	...	Newscaster
Vincent Cassel	...	Gino Bolognese
Hélène Mahieu	...	Gina Carbonara
Paul Garcia	...	Screen Lover
Sophia Myles	...	Saucy Wood Nymph
Emma Pierson	...	Saucy Wood Nymph
Anna Madeley	...	Saucy Wood Nymph
Simon Pegg	...	Mr. Nice
Lisa Palfrey	...	Mrs. Nice

Storyline

Richard "Richie" Twat and Edward "Eddie" Elizabeth Ndingombaba are two losers who run Guest House Paradiso, the worst hotel in the UK. Guest House Paradiso is next-door to a nuclear power plant, The chef is a illegal immigrant and the waiter is a mental patient who has escaped from a mental hospital. Once the guests check-in, they are dying to check-out. Richie and Eddie's luck is about to change when Gina Carbonara, a Italian movie star checks in and is hiding away from her horrible fiancé Gino Bolognese and the Nice family checks in and Richie discovers Mr. and Mrs. Nice has a rubber bra and underpants. But all hell breaks loose when Richie and Eddie serves radioactive fish to the guests for supper and Gino has tracked Gina down and the guests become very sick.

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Plot Keywords:

slapstick comedy | disgusting | disturbing | bare shoulders | hotel | 

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Genres:

Comedy | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for gross humor, comic violence, language and sexual content

Details

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Release Date:

3 December 1999 (UK)

Also Known As:

Agyatlan Apartman

Filming Locations:

Ealing Studios, Ealing, London, England, UK

Box Office

Opening Weekend:

£672,979 (United Kingdom), 5 December 1999, Limited Release

Company Credits

Production Co:

PolyGram Films International, Samuelson Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

89 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

When he was interviewed about the film, Rik Mayall said that he considered the film as a 25th Anniversary film, as production on this film commenced about twenty-five years after Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson first met each other at university, which led them to becoming real-life best friends, and a comedy duo.

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Goofs

Despite never meeting Gino before, all the guests decide to vomit on him at high velocity, that it causes him to fly out of the window and landing in the sea to drown. Which means that a group of innocent people just killed somebody for no good reason.

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Quotes

Richard Twat: Will you stop making those owl noises?
Eddie Elizabeth Ndingombaba: Sorry
Richard Twat: Now come on
[Rich slips and lands with his eye in the candle]
Richard Twat: AAAAAARRRRRGGGGHHHH
[Lights go out then Eddy lights another candle]
Eddie Elizabeth Ndingombaba: Rich are you alright?
Richard Twat: Candle in the eye.
Eddie Elizabeth Ndingombaba: What?
Richard Twat: Candle in the eye
[...]

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Crazy Credits

A scence with Richie, Eddie and Gina on a beach in the caribbean, running "Beach House Paradiso", a bar, is shown.

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Alternate Versions

When the film aired on the Star Movies channel, all the 'F' words were removed.

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Connections

References Block-Heads (1938)

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Soundtracks

Jazz Delicious Hot, Disgusting Cold
Written by Vivian Stanshall, Neil Innes, 'Legs' Larry Smith, Rodney Slater,
Roger Ruskin Spear, Vernon Dudley Bowhay Nowell, Martin Ash
Performed by The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band

User Reviews

90 minutes of brilliant depravity

A sign of what to expect in this film came when I spotted that this was the first (and probably the last) film to have in its credits a "Vomit Technician".

In what is a couple of hours of silly gags, hilarious violence and excellent slapstick humour.

This film was just what you'd expect from the Bottom boys, and it is great to see them back in their best form after Rik Mayall's life threatening accident.

Richie (Mayall) and Eddie (Edmondson) are too similar to their Bottom characters, if we can have any criticism at all, and Edmondson does a surprisingly good job in directing the film also.

This film has already spawned the predictable comparisons to Fawlty Towers that just aren't there, and the Guest House Paradiso itself is hardly Torquay!

Watch out for some excellently crafted dialogue amongst all the violence and mayhem.

If you don't like Bottom you'll probably hate this - but I loved it.