Sammy and Rosie Get Laid

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Sammy and Rosie Get Laid

1987

1h 40m

Drama

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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.

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

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Nell Minow

Movie Mom

Rated: 4/5

Dec 24, 2002

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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

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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

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Chase Burns

The Stranger (Seattle, WA)

I love director Stephen Frears, but I especially love his work with screenwriter Hanif Kureishi.

Jan 7, 2022

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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

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British Pakistani's are so cool.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/26/23

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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

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Audience Member

Fun movie from a dead time.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/13/23

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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

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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

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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

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Stephen Frears

Director

Shashi Kapoor

Rafi Rahman

Claire Bloom

Alice

Ayub Khan-Din

Sammy

Frances Barber

Rosie Hobbs

Roland Gift

Danny

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