Release Date:- 19 Dec 2008
Director:- Andy Cadiff
Writers :- Nick Newman (screenplay)
John Ross (screenplay)
Genre   :- Comedy
Plot:-
A sleazy Hollywood agent tricks one of his clients, a faded action star, into playing King Lear in an amateur charity production in England…
Star Cast:-
Burt Reynolds           Jefferson Steel
Imelda Staunton       Mary
Derek Jacobi               Nigel
Charles Durning
Peter Gunn                Frank
Samantha Bond         Dorothy
Alistair Petrie             Rupert
Tony Jayawardena   Kevin
Alexandra Weaver
Camilla Arfwedson   Amanda
Heidi Monsen            Journalist
Richard James        Doctor
Libby Hayter             Patron
Michael Wildman    Darcy
Gemma Lawrence    Verity
Kelly Price                 Lauren
Silvia Logan               Theatre employee (as Silvia Lombardo)
Sarah Goldberg        Cinema Girl 2
Elesia Ennis               Cinema Girl 1
Ty Davies                  Ty
Jacqueline Hales     Emergency Nurse
Lawrence Sheldon    Journalist 3
Movie Stills And Pictures:-
Synopsis:-
A Hollywood has-been slums it in an amateur British production: it’s a description that covers both plot and film in this amiable but scattershot comedy. Burt Reynolds is Jefferson Steel, a pampered action star desperate to make a comeback. He accepts an offer to do Shakespeare in Stratford, little knowing that it’s not upon Avon, but the (fictional) village of Stratford St John in Suffolk.
Naturally, the amateur theatre group is in raptures about the arrival of their LA King Lear, but the man himself is less than enthused about acting alongside pig farmers and staying in a B&B with no ensuite facilities. It’s a reasonably amusing idea, and the script duly has fun with the contrasts between LA-la land and sleepy Suffolk. Steel pops his shoes outside his bedroom door only for a dog to chew on them. Later, the local mobile library is hurriedly transformed into a makeshift trailer.
Such antics raise a smile, but no belly laughs. Those are reserved soley for Imelda Staunton, who puts in a jolly performance as the owner of the B&B and Steel’s biggest fan. Derek Jacobi also acts a bland Reynolds off the screen in a no-brainer role as a Shakesperian purist. But the story is completely preposterous, as anyone with a passing knowledge of Hollywood and agents (ie ‘Entourage’ viewers) will know. It’s also hastily edited and, in places, poorly cast. The talents of Staunton, Jacobi and love interest Samantha Bond aside, the title may be more accurate than originally intended…
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