Great fun
Take an obligatory American - Jeff Goldblum - a gorgeous nurse (Emma Thompson), a script by Richard Curtis, long before going on to pen Four Weddings and a Notting Hill; get Mel Smith to direct and rubber-faced Rowan Atkinson to play the villain of the piece. The result is The Tall Guy, probably the greatest comedy of 1989.
I remember going to see it twice at the time and laughing all the way through it, amazed that British comedies could be this good.
It has a huge amount going for it with intelligence, cracking lines and some highly stylised photography by Adrian Biddle.
Curtis' semi-autobiographical script is based on his own days as a fall guy for Atkinson and the result is well worth a look.
I remember going to see it twice at the time and laughing all the way through it, amazed that British comedies could be this good.
It has a huge amount going for it with intelligence, cracking lines and some highly stylised photography by Adrian Biddle.
Curtis' semi-autobiographical script is based on his own days as a fall guy for Atkinson and the result is well worth a look.
- Dodger-9
- Aug 20, 2000