Wilt

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Audience Member Very funny comedy about a meek college instructor accused of murder by a not very bright policeman. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/28/23 Full Review Audience Member One of those rare cases where the film is just as funny as the book. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/09/23 Full Review Audience Member In the late 1980's, Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones jumped from the BBC to London Weekend Television, they got their own series and LWT wanted them to do a film as well, and they went for this adaptation of Tom Sharpe's 1976 novel, adapted here by Andrew Marshall and David Renwick. It's an amusing farce, and it's better than Smith and Jones' previous screen outing. Henry Wilt (Jones) is a community studies teacher at a poorly funded college in East Anglia, and he's in an unhappy marriage to Eva (Alison Steadman), who has alienated him so much, he dreams of killing her. However, he soon finds himself at the middle of a murder investigation led by bumbling Inspector Flint (Smith), and Wilt was alleged to have been seen stabbing a woman, but it's all a misunderstanding. He was at a party with his wife a week before, where he ended up tied up naked with a blow-up sex doll. He leaves the party, with the doll in the back of the car, and he dumps it down a hole outside the college where he works, which is filled with concrete. But, when Eva goes missing for real, Wilt has some explaining to do, and Flint believes Wilt is covering something up. It's a very amusing comedy, and it works because they had seasoned writers Marshall and Renwick do the screenplay, and they seemed to have got the joke. Although, some jokes work and some don't, it's still an amusing film with some good gags, and it makes up for Smith and Jones' first big screen venture. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/05/23 Full Review Audience Member This is the Defenition of Black Comedy it's so hillarious to watch the Misadventures of Mr. Wilt and the Lousy Crazy Cop Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/16/23 Full Review Audience Member (First and only viewing - 6/17/2010) Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/19/23 Full Review Audience Member Happy 20th anniversary, to all the crew and cast. Still holds up on the dark comedy front, and a deserved rendition of a great Sharpe novel. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/23/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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