Run for your wife

[Livi92]

Sorry if there's another thread for this, but I couldn't find one, and so I just thought I'd kick off the discussion on this film.

A very funny film, which was quite low budget. Think it would be better for television rather than the cinema. Loved the Britishness of the film... and all the London locations...

6/10

[greece]

Sorry if there's another thread for this, but I couldn't find one, and so I just thought I'd kick off the discussion on this film.

A very funny film, which was quite low budget. Think it would be better for television rather than the cinema. Loved the Britishness of the film... and all the London locations...

6/10

Ditto ^.^

[prettyxcool]

Thanks so much to c_t for the tickets to the premiere at Odeon Leicester Square. I collected the tickets from the PR company at the pre-arranged time, but normally they have your ticket ready in an envelope, but this time she just had a handful in her hand, and when she gave me two that were really far back, I asked if there were any nearer the front, and she looked through the handful of tickets and said most of them were single seats, and then she did find one pair together. So happy that it was a bit closer, we went to watch the red carpet arrivals.

It was a really wet and cold start to the premiere, we stood outside for about half an hour but my hands were so frozen, I could not even hold my camera let alone try to take any photos, so we went inside to the warmth. Showed our tickets and was directed into the stalls, got comfortable, great seats, great view of the screen, and then two people came by and had tickets to those same seats, and then when we checked, we saw that they were in fact for Royal Circle and not The Stalls! Haha. So of we trotted upstairs, and walked right into the party of British celebs chatting and drinking! I hovered around Denise Welch from Waterloo Road/Loose Woman, to try and get a photo and she saw me and said 'hello' with a huge smile and so welcoming and said of course I could have a photo, and then when the flash did not go off, she asked to do it again. She was so nice, and indeed all the celebs were too, they all were happy to pose with us, and we had a great time chatting to them, no security to usher you away! It was great. Later after the film, we got photos with Rula Lenska (Rock Follies, and once married to Dennis Waterman), Sarah Harding, Vicki Michelle ('Allo 'Allo) and her daughter, Su Pollard (Hi-de-Hi!), John Altman (Nick Cotton in Eastenders), Ben Cartwright (Detective in Run for your Wife), Sarah Harding, and countless others, I can't remember their names! Unfortunately, none of the main stars Danny Dyer, Denise Van Outen, Neil Morrissey stayed to mingle, but we did chat to Ray Cooney.

On our seats were a rather nice programme, ones you normally get at a theatre show. On the way out, saw loads of forgotten brollies, and a very nice sparkly cap, which I picked up and handed to the ushers. On hindsight, may be I should have kept it, it may belong to a celeb, who will not come back to claim it will they?

The film was much, much better than I expected. I had tears in my eyes from laughing. Neil Morrissey was so, so funny and although the farce was predictable, it was really done well and was hilarious. We all came away smiling and feeling good. Lots of cameos, it was a spot who's who, I saw Richard Briers, Wendy Craig, Bernard Cribbins, Barry Cryer, Cliff Richard, June Whitfield, Maureen Lipman (she was at the premiere too), and Judi Dench was listed as the bag lady, but she was unrecognisable. The programme listed 60 names!

I agree with livi92 that it makes a good TV film 7/10

[Beate]

http://www.cine-vue.com/2013/02/film-re ... -wife.html
"a wildly miscast Dyer in perhaps the year's worst film so far, with some of the worst dialogue audible from an ensemble cast since - well, Movie 43"

[asamaic]

Following its Valentine's Day release in the UK, the British movie has rung up a mere £602 at the UK box office – an average of just £67 at each of the nine cinemas screening it. Even an extra £320 from previews is not going to have the producers of Skyfall worried.

Full story: http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2013-02- ... box-office

[canadian_turtle]

[The Sparrow]

It doesn't look like the Box Office will increase by much as the expected additional cinemas have now been scaled right back.

Odeon are only showing it in 4 locations from today and mostly for a single screening.

[KKO]

I listened to a review of this by Mark Kermode and he said it was appalling. Danny Dyer in particular.

[Beate]

This is hilarious: http://bestforfilm.com/film-reviews/com ... your-wife/

[KKO]

That's crazy.