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Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?

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Film star Merkin (Anthony Newley) relives the movie of his life, to forget Mercy Humppe and find true happiness with his wife (Joan Collins).

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Vincent Canby New York Times 05/09/2005
The movie is as self-indulgent as a burp. Go to Full Review Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times 10/23/2004
3/4
It is strange, wonderful, original, and not quite successful. Go to Full Review Eddie Harrison film-authority.com 01/30/2024
3/5
...a personal, ambitious and influential film with an emphasis on pathos and self-pity. The intensely personal nature of the production seems like a miscalculation, yet has the fascination of a train-wreck, a car crash and a dumpster fire simultaneously. Go to Full Review Larry Zolf Maclean's Magazine 07/10/2019
It's Newley and Newley alone that one must credit for a new auteur breakthrough -- the world's first commercially screened stag home movie. Go to Full Review Robert Cushman The Spectator 07/10/2019
The question of whether or not Heironymus will get over the Humppe never becomes pressing. Nor does anything else; bets can seldom have been so consistently hedged. Go to Full Review Bernard Drew Gannett News Service 07/10/2019
Fellini had his 8 1/2, and Anthony Newley, feeling himself no less a genius, has now made his Odyssey, which might be called 1 1/4. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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06/04/2021 Anthony Newley's son recommended this to me via the trashy tabloids, admitting it was humiliating to have his father put his toddler self and his mother in his film where Newley Sr. sings about being unable to resist cheating on Mom (Joan Collins) with very young girls, all filmed in front of a mountain of his own trash. This is rated X, and it is very X, so, if you can't handle X, don't go here. Because man, you might be like me and be laughing your f'ing head off at how wrong this is, and the shame of finding something this filthy ingenius will hit you, and you'll have to take a few steps back from it all and raise a lot of difficult questions to yourself about the arts. No one has to make this film again because Anthony Newley made it, and it is an epic masterpiece on the man and the myths. You won't be guilty for watching this, but, you may feel guilty, so beware. See more 08/16/2016 Vanity project for Newley is bizarre, to say the least. See more Read all reviews
Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?

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Anthony Newley

Director

Anthony Newley

Heironymus Merkin

Joan Collins

Polyester Poontang

Milton Berle

Goodtime Eddie Filth

Connie Kreski

Mercy Humppe

George Jessel

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Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?

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Synopsis Film star Merkin (Anthony Newley) relives the movie of his life, to forget Mercy Humppe and find true happiness with his wife (Joan Collins).
Director
Anthony Newley
Rating
R
Genre
Comedy
Original Language
English
Runtime
1h 46m