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Plunkett & Macleane

Jim Thompson | 4:41 p.m. July 4, 1999

I thoroughly enjoyed this movie. It's intelligent and
literateï¿½although it's too obviously a filmed playï¿½and it
demonstrates that a fine movie can be made without profanity
or jokes about sex and other bodily functions. After seeing
"The Winslow Boy" and "The Spanish Prisoner" I'm looking
forward to David Mamet's next

Dennis Orgill | 3:37 p.m. Oct. 10, 1999

A splendid, well-crafted stage play effectively transferred
to the screen. How enjoyable to see intelligence and wit
at
the cinema. The British seem to have a corner on this sort
of thing. I would that it were not so.

David Williams | 1:07 a.m. June 29, 2002

While the movie started out slow--"Do you really want to
keep watching it?"--and never did pick up speed, it did
quickly pick up quality. Superb acting, good
cinematography, and a wholesomeness not flaunted, made
this an enjoyable evening.

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Itishree | 6:23 a.m. Nov. 12, 2002

I haven't watched the movie but the play by Rattigan is
simply marvellous.

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Movie Info

Rated R for violence, gore, profanity, vulgarity, brief nudity, sex, , racial epithets, .

Cast: Jonny Lee Miller, Robert Carlyle, Liv Tyler

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