Product Details

• Actors: Oliver Reed, Fiona Lewis, Anna Gaël, Derek Jacobi, Meg Wynn Owen
• Directors: Andrew Sinclair
• Format: NTSC
• Number of tapes: 1
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B0000665SI
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #41,623 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Um...., September 15, 2007

By	N. B. Delain "nbdelain" (Upstate NY, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This movie is so bad it's good. It has a cast to die for (Oliver Reed, Fiona Lewis, Derek Jacobi, ...) but the script...well, the script is the epitome of terrible, bad, horrid. The actors each does what he or she can with this behemoth, but it really is beyond saving.

Until you look at it as a comedic parody on Britain's Upper Crust. Gregory (Derek Jacobi) is the Earl of Something who lives a life of utter depravity, leaving the way open to his butler (Oliver Reed), a mildly satanic character, to take over the running and eventually the ownership of the Steetly Heum. Fiona Lewis plays the meek, mild nanny for Gregory's two bratty kids who is trapped between the butler's plot to take over and Gregory's licentiousness.

I'd love to be able to give a Derek Jacobi movie a good review, but it's impossible with this one; this movie is so bad it's good. Watching the actors struggle to make any sense at all of this godawful script is a lesson in really good acting, and for that reason I grace it with three stars. But don't let the three stars fool you; this movie is not good.