Distributor: Fox
Home Entertainment Certificate: M15+ | 100
minutes
Available to rent/ buy Extras: Yes Director:Nick
Hurram
ANYONE
IN IT WE KNOW?
Alfred
Molina, Brenda Blethyn, Christopher Walken, Lee Evans, Naomi Watts
WHAT’S
IT ABOUT THEN?
Boris
Plots (Alfred Molina) has been
in love with Betty (Brenda
Blethyn) for over 30 years, when
her mother-in-law dies it allows
Betty and Boris to rekindle
their feelings – the pair set
up a bizarre plan to fake
Betty’s death and run away to
Tahiti. Two things stand in
their way – Betty’s
obnoxious husband and Boris’s
chief rival in the funeral
business who will stop at
nothing to become number one
funeral parlour in town.
SO
IS IT ANY GOOD?
Plots
is one of the funniest and most surreal films you’ll see all year, the
first rate cast enjoying themselves immensely in this manic tale of
funeral parlours in a sleepy Welsh village. Christopher Walken is
hilarious (check out his fly away hair) as the American featherbed who
wants to put the fun back into funerals, also great is his sidekick Lee
Evans, very much Igor to Featherbed’s Baron Frankenstein. Naomi Watts
is pretty much unrecognisable as the sexy secretary having an affair
with Betty’s horrible husband, Molina and Blethyn are old hands at
this kind of thing.
There
are so many funny and fantastic moments in Plots that it’s hard to
single them out but watch out for the Star Trek themed funeral, the
Jerry Springer moments and any scene featuring Walken and Evans,
especially when they learn about Betty and Boris’s plot. Special
mention must be made to the great set design and some highly amusing
little motifs by director Hurram.
