Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuAntonia is a cute drug addict in London, who meets a nice motorbike courier. They get caught between a corrupt drug cop and a drug dealer.Antonia is a cute drug addict in London, who meets a nice motorbike courier. They get caught between a corrupt drug cop and a drug dealer.Antonia is a cute drug addict in London, who meets a nice motorbike courier. They get caught between a corrupt drug cop and a drug dealer.
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Christopher Adamson
- Max Quinlan
- (as Chris Adamson)
Jason Dors Lake
- Natty
- (as Jason Lake)
Alan Freeman
- Disc Jockey
- (as Alan 'Fluff' Freeman)
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This film is worth seeing simply for its monumental crapness. In the first half an hour alone countless unsympathetic characters are introduced, some of whom proceed to perform random and inexplicable actions throughout. The plot is so disjointed and badly conceived, it requires considerable effort to maintain any idea of what's going on. Not that there's any reason to do so. Instead, viewers should marvel at some appallingly bad dialogue, a staggeringly inept piece of acting from Liz Hurley, and one of the most incomprehensible plotlines I've ever come across in a film. Worth watching, simply because it is SO bad.
It is a true shame that this piece of garbage was the wonderful Jeremy Brett's last film. obviously he needed money to treat the heart disease that killed him at 60 years old.Mr. Brett tries his best but with a script and direction straight out of amatuer theatricals what could he do?
A totally lamentable mess of a film, 'starring' the untalented Liz Hurley in a plot which was something to do with drugs. I think.
What really got me about this turkey was the calibre of the actors who were somehow persuaded to appear in it: Joss Ackland! Claire Bloom! Jeremy Brett, for god's sake (in his final film appearance as he died soon after). Alan Freeman (no, wait, he probably belongs here as an overaged daft DJ).
The worst thing about it is that you remember certain bits of awfulness for ages and ages afterwards. Trust me, you really don't want to see Ackland in sexy scenes. You don't. And that bit with Hurley and Brett is just sooo pathetic. Tut.
Avoid this load of rubbish at all costs.
What really got me about this turkey was the calibre of the actors who were somehow persuaded to appear in it: Joss Ackland! Claire Bloom! Jeremy Brett, for god's sake (in his final film appearance as he died soon after). Alan Freeman (no, wait, he probably belongs here as an overaged daft DJ).
The worst thing about it is that you remember certain bits of awfulness for ages and ages afterwards. Trust me, you really don't want to see Ackland in sexy scenes. You don't. And that bit with Hurley and Brett is just sooo pathetic. Tut.
Avoid this load of rubbish at all costs.
I saw this a VERY long time ago, when Elizabeth Hurley and Hugh Grant were cresting on their mid-1990s power couple wave (and just before Hugh became unstuck in his personal life) after the impact of 'Four Weddings' and a certain Versace dress. Liz suffered her share indignities for this movie, appearing topless on the side of VHS box for one (!), as well as being catapulted into the pages of numerous 'lads mags' on the strength of it, but it was their breakthrough that ensured that this otherwise long forgotten project had any sort of profile at all.
I'd like to think that somewhere the one shot writer may have had in mind some kind of romance - crime drama like 'Mona Lisa' but the screenplay is a shouty , incomprehensible mess of coincidences, contrivences and craziness. Most of the characters are unlikeable, although given that most are upper class junkies that should come as no surprise.
Yes, Liz is in sparklingly wooden form for a long term drug abuser but I'd argue that Elizabeth Taylor in her prime would have had an uphill battle with this material. That even the great Joss Ackland and C Thomas Howell struggle to deliver acceptable performances suggests that Hurley was perhaps being judged perhaps a little too harshly.
Only Jeremy Brett, the quintessential Sherlock Holmes, and a fine classical actor in his own right, soars far above the swamp of mediocrity. That he and Ackland both disassociated themselves from what would be Brett's final movie is a sad testament to a performer who undoubtably deserved a better epithet.
Mind you, it's always worth remembering that this is how fame was often achieved in the days of pre-social media and instant successes - a long apprenticeship of hard graft, obscurity and appearances clunkers like this.
I'd like to think that somewhere the one shot writer may have had in mind some kind of romance - crime drama like 'Mona Lisa' but the screenplay is a shouty , incomprehensible mess of coincidences, contrivences and craziness. Most of the characters are unlikeable, although given that most are upper class junkies that should come as no surprise.
Yes, Liz is in sparklingly wooden form for a long term drug abuser but I'd argue that Elizabeth Taylor in her prime would have had an uphill battle with this material. That even the great Joss Ackland and C Thomas Howell struggle to deliver acceptable performances suggests that Hurley was perhaps being judged perhaps a little too harshly.
Only Jeremy Brett, the quintessential Sherlock Holmes, and a fine classical actor in his own right, soars far above the swamp of mediocrity. That he and Ackland both disassociated themselves from what would be Brett's final movie is a sad testament to a performer who undoubtably deserved a better epithet.
Mind you, it's always worth remembering that this is how fame was often achieved in the days of pre-social media and instant successes - a long apprenticeship of hard graft, obscurity and appearances clunkers like this.
You keep thinking that the cliches will stop, that someone will show some emotion, that an English word besides 'f...k' will be used to describe something.....but no, no, NO!! You are condemning yourself to a monumental waste of time if you think things will get any better.
The plot is so confusing, and then it becomes not even worth the bother to sort out. Maybe Elisabeth Hurley was playing a stony-faced, no-emotion, no-care druggy; or maybe....she CAN'T ACT!!! Whichever, even the coupling scenes (it would be an insult to call them 'love scenes') are amateurish. You don't even care about the torture scenes. Glad I couldn't recognize Claire Bloom...she was probably glad, herself.
The lighting is haphazard, the dialogue hardly comprehendible. I wasted $10 on this dog....mad, it was not. Boring, it most definitely was.
The plot is so confusing, and then it becomes not even worth the bother to sort out. Maybe Elisabeth Hurley was playing a stony-faced, no-emotion, no-care druggy; or maybe....she CAN'T ACT!!! Whichever, even the coupling scenes (it would be an insult to call them 'love scenes') are amateurish. You don't even care about the torture scenes. Glad I couldn't recognize Claire Bloom...she was probably glad, herself.
The lighting is haphazard, the dialogue hardly comprehendible. I wasted $10 on this dog....mad, it was not. Boring, it most definitely was.
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- WissenswertesJoss Ackland has called the film "god-awful and quite rightly torn to shreds".
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