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Sammy and Rosie Get Laid

1987 1h 40m Drama List
75% Tomatometer 12 Reviews 83% Popcornmeter 250+ Ratings
Sammy (Ayub Khan-Din) and Rosie (Frances Barber) are married bourgeois Brits who have developed unusual ways to deal with domestic boredom. They allow one another to engage in sexual trysts, live near a slummy working-class section of London and hang out with strange groups of friends, including political extremists and common lowlifes. When Sammy's estranged dad, respectable politician Rafi (Shashi Kapoor), shows up unexpectedly, he tries to quell the couple's hedonistic ways.

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Ed Potton Times (UK) As messy, jarring and disorientating as the Eighties London in which it's set. Thirty years on, though, it's also a seamy snapshot of a time when bohemian lefties embraced the lower classes and multiculturalism as if they were new albums by Talk Talk. Rated: 3/5 Jul 20, 2017 Full Review Nell Minow Movie Mom Rated: 4/5 Dec 24, 2002 Full Review Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times For people who love London and yet are thoughtful about it, this film is indispensable. Rated: 3.5/4 Jan 1, 2000 Full Review Elizabeth Pincus Gay Community News (Boston) The movie is so plot-intensive that it almost dissolves to plotlessness, with an unfocused tumultuousness. Aug 18, 2022 Full Review Chase Burns The Stranger (Seattle, WA) I love director Stephen Frears, but I especially love his work with screenwriter Hanif Kureishi. Jan 7, 2022 Full Review Ángel Fernández-Santos El Pais (Spain) [Stephen] Frears doesn't know how to make credible the characters that populate his story. And the movie, in the second half, slips from his hands. [Full Review in Spanish] Apr 8, 2020 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member British Pakistani's are so cool. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/26/23 Full Review Audience Member When the 'old world' meets its cosmopolitan urban offspring against a backdrop of open relationships, race revolts, shady business and political scandal. Feelin' it! Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/05/23 Full Review Audience Member Fun movie from a dead time. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/13/23 Full Review Audience Member one wacky couple... and that guy from the fine young cannibals makes it that much better.. the best line is when the father says.. "I am content.. it is agitation that I seek" Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/08/23 Full Review Audience Member in a perfect world, it'd be mentioned in the same breath as 8 1/2 and Dr. Strangelove. profoundly ambitious and hysterical. a work of gonzo genius. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/18/23 Full Review Audience Member Very many nice touches: I saw this with a friend (who's since written about the social construction of gender), and we both cracked up about the evening class on semiotics, etc. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Sammy (Ayub Khan-Din) and Rosie (Frances Barber) are married bourgeois Brits who have developed unusual ways to deal with domestic boredom. They allow one another to engage in sexual trysts, live near a slummy working-class section of London and hang out with strange groups of friends, including political extremists and common lowlifes. When Sammy's estranged dad, respectable politician Rafi (Shashi Kapoor), shows up unexpectedly, he tries to quell the couple's hedonistic ways.
Director
Stephen Frears
Producer
Tim Bevan, Sarah Radclyffe
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Runtime
1h 40m