Customer Reviews

Intimate Relations [VHS]

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4 star:		(3)
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2 star:		(1)
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What a brilliant film! from the first time i saw it i fell in love with it, all the actors were brilliant but who stood out was Julie Walters her acting skills were and are magnificent she's absoloutely brilliant! I am a huge fan of all of Julie's work. Rupert Graves and Julie Walters brought the characters up to a high standard that may not have been achieved by other actors which made the film more enjoyable. I would recommend this film to all. Especially fans of Julie!

This must be the most amazing video you will ever see!!!!Im a fan of Rupert Graves aka Harold Cuppy. It will make you laugh,cringe and drool!Its a very good video that will never come out of your VCR!This is one Vid'that anyone would like.You'll regret not getting it!Look out 4 the young girl!
Ive given it 5 stars!IO/IO! This is Special.

ACTUALLY based on a true story, this dark comedy will have you glued to your TV screen for sure. The protagonist in this story is an orphan all grown up (sort of) by the name of Harold Guppy, a young man in 1950s London that just did a stint in the Queen's Navy.

Looking for a place to hang his hat, he ends up as a boarder in the quite WEIRD Beasley household, where Daddy Stanley, Mummy Marjorie & Baby Joyce reside & take him in as a family member (at first). Marjorie, a frumpy 50's something housewife, though very adept & conniving, is daily put off by the notion of sex with her sagging and slowly deteriorating husband. Thusly, Marjorie is searching for her lost youth so she hungrily and SHAMELESSLY pursues a fabulous affair with her handsome, love starved, young lodger, which triggers rages and MAJOR jealousy from her nubile, prepubescent budding baby daughter, Joyce, of whom also has a crush on Guppy & gives her virginity to him .

This ACTUALLY leads to a really freaky lust triangle. The insatiable Marjorie can't get enough sex from poor Mr. Guppy, gets jealous of her daughter and thus the movie has quite an eye-opening shocker of a finale... The TRUTH, my friends, IS STRANGER than FICTION!!!

I bought the video because I am a big fan of Ruper Graves. This is possibly the worst he has looked in a film and most unlikeable character he has played, but my respect for him as an actor grew a notch. The plot is very disturbing, but the witty dialogue and the British humor manage to keep me laughing all the way to the end. Although the tragic ending was expected and predicted, it still comes as a shock to the closure of this funny story.

I just love quirky, dark English movies and if you are a fan of Julie Walters & Rupert Graves, you could not find a better piece to exhibit their talents. All the cast, costumes, sets and locations are fabulous in this true and fascinating period black comedy/crime story.

Wish this film had been available on DVD, but it is not... in the U.S. and it is a great film. Arrived as expected in good condition at a fair price.

A pleasant tale this most certainly is not but then I guess that's part of the brilliance of this film as it is nicely sprinkled with those bits of dark humour that make it all the more interesting and draw you a bit closer to the characters. Julie Walters (always good) plays Majorie Beasly, a bored housewife approaching fifty who feels life is passing her by. And how does she liven things up a bit for herself? Why, she mercilessly seduces handsome young men who lodge with her of course. Only this time she makes a serious error of judgement when she picks on Harold Guppy an innocent, vulnerable de-mobbed sailor with a violent streak... To make things worse she is unwisely brazen about the affair in front of her confused adolescent daughter, Joyce.

Considering this is set in post-war Britain, an extremly drab and pruddish time, one can sympathise to a certain extent with the really rather nasty Majorie and one also suspects this sort of thing went on a lot more than we think.

And they say the older genrations should be wise....

This held my interest until towards the end -- the dramatic high point. The acting is good, but I really felt at the end that I had just wasted my time. (I seldom feel that way about a film.) It is off-beat, and definitely amusing at times.