A drunken playboy stands to lose a wealthy inheritance when he falls for a woman his family doesn't like.A drunken playboy stands to lose a wealthy inheritance when he falls for a woman his family doesn't like.A drunken playboy stands to lose a wealthy inheritance when he falls for a woman his family doesn't like.
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- 3 wins & 6 nominations
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- TriviaWhile sulking in his Batmobile after Hobson (Dame Helen Mirren) gives him an aspirin and vitamin, Arthur (Russell Brand) scrolls through his phone to look for Naomi's number and we briefly see Katy Perry, Brand's then-wife, listed as a contact.
- GoofsWhen Naomi and Arthur enjoy their "first date" in the middle of Grand Central Terminal, darkness is seen outside the windows as if its the middle of the night, even though they were in bright daylight moments earlier outside on 42nd Street.
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Hobson: My name is Lillian and I am an alcoholic. I'm rich, I'm fabulously rich. I'm also generous and kind-hearted. My father died when I was young and my mother was absent most of the time. Is this an excuse for making a mockery of my life? Oh, it all looks very wild from the outside. I once went to bed with three European princesses at the same time, but: A. I can't remember anything about it, and B: apparently I vomited over two of them before losing control of my bladder on the third. Oh, yes, all such fun... until the fog parts and suddenly there's a hole so big that all the vintage champagne and all the Batmobiles on the world can't fill it. Then I'm all alone on my magnetic bed, wondering what venereal disease I've just caught.
Arthur: Always the quiet ones.
- Crazy creditsThe opening Warner Bros. logo appears as if inside a champagne glass.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Tonight Show with Jay Leno: Episode #19.117 (2011)
- SoundtracksA Harmless Game of Dress Up
Written and Produced by Mark Ronson
Russell Brand may not be as convincing a drunk as Dudley Moore in the original Arthur, but Brand makes the titular man-child as endearing as he could be given the premise of the comedy. Writer Peter Baynham brings some of the manic madness and tossed-off lines of Bruno to complement Brand's physicality for a pleasantly witty if not totally amusing satire of the idle rich.
Helen Mirren does well as his butler, Hobson, a middle-aged Mary Poppins, although decidedly darker. (Sir John Gielgud in the original would be tough to imitate.) Their relationship substitutes very nicely, thank you, for the lack of one between Arthur and his real mother (an effectively stiff Geraldine James). Her demand that he marry the social-climbing Susan (Jennifer Garner) or be disinherited is the romantic setup for him falling in love with "nobody" Naomi (Greta Gerwig). "Setup" for such set pieces as a deserted Grand Central Terminal with a "Pez" candy dinner and acrobats, a not terribly funny exhibition of Arthur's childlike charm.
I was greatly amused by the homage to Hitchcock, Rear Window specifically, when Arthur looks from his tub with golden binoculars at pedestrians who remind him of pop cult figures, some wittily chosen to resemble those close to him such as Hobson.
One of the small lessons of the film is that true love should be the reason for marriage, and more importantly AA is an effective solution for drinking problems. The film, after all, is about an immature rich man's discovering his inner man through sobriety. Doesn't sound that romantic, does it? Well, it isn't, even though the characters are enviably happy in the process, as is this movie-going experience.
"A very merry, dancing, drinking, laughing, quaffing, and unthinking time." John Dryden, the Secular Masque
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- Apr 6, 2011
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- Tình Hay Tiền
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- Budget
- $40,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $33,035,397
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $12,222,756
- Apr 10, 2011
- Gross worldwide
- $48,147,945
- Runtime1 hour 50 minutes
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- 1.85 : 1