Run for Your Wife

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Run for Your Wife

2013

1h 34m

Comedy

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John (Danny Dyer) leads a double life, but no one knows his secret until he does something heroic.

Peter Bradshaw

Guardian

The trouser-dropping 80s stage farce finally hits the big screen with Danny Dyer, to kill off any remaining British self-respect.

Rated: 1/5

Feb 14, 2013

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Tom Huddleston

Time Out

Run for the exit.

Rated: 1/5

Feb 14, 2013

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Adam Lee Davies

Little White Lies

A bizarre, ill-advised antediluvian folly. Like Jurassic Park.

Rated: 2/5

Feb 14, 2013

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Charlie Lyne

Ultra Culture

It's hard to believe that the play could have warranted a 9-year theatrical run in 1983. I guess the past really is a foreign country. One populated exclusively by toddlers.

Feb 19, 2013

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Jason Best

Movie Talk

Truly dire. An offensive, witless farrago... The film's social attitudes - to homosexuality, women, marriage - appear to have been preserved in mothballs since the 1970s. Given air now, they give off an offensive odour.

Feb 16, 2013

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Rich Cline

Contactmusic.com

British farces work on stage, but usually feel agonisingly stupid on screen. And this is a worst-case scenario, as playwright Cooney adapts his classic 1983 farce without even the slightest adjustment for the cinema.

Rated: 1.5/5

Feb 15, 2013

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I think Danny Dyer is brilliant in this comedy farce so many laugh out loud moments. It's a film starring Danny Dyer without one swear word but everything he says still makes you laugh. The list of famous faces in cameo roles is incredible, Lionel Blair falling through a bathroom floor is incredible and Danny Dyer falling from the side of the building is knockout... Neil Morrissey the other star in the film also shines.. if you like watching farces at the theatre you'll love this film.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/18/23

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Hilarious! Lots of cameos. Must see the sequel "Caught In The Net".

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/09/23

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1/2 a star for all the cameos and money going to charity. Surgery would be preferable. Without anaesthetic.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

02/09/23

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Audience Member

So bad. That is 90 minutes of my life I will never get back

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

01/21/23

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600.00 pounds in its opening weekend. Yes its that dire. Like a revamped Carry on film. Danny isnt so dire and shows he can do comedy - given the right script. Van Outen is awful she overacts in all scenes. Harding was dreadful. The cast of cameos was the fun part from Cliff Richard to Judi Dench to Sylvia syms to Su Pollard....

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

01/31/23

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Not much to say about this film really. The humour was so poor. But good actors and actresses in it especially Danny dyer.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/17/23

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Synopsis

John (Danny Dyer) leads a double life, but no one knows his secret until he does something heroic.

Director: Ray Cooney, John Luton
Producer: Graham Fowler, Nigel Goldsack, James Simpson
Screenwriter: Ray Cooney
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: English
Runtime: 1h 34m