The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood

1986
1h 50m

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Faustus is a clerk in the St. Johns, Newfoundland department of education. He dreams of becoming ruler of Newfoundland and staging a secession from Canada. Back in the real world, Faustus' b... Read allFaustus is a clerk in the St. Johns, Newfoundland department of education. He dreams of becoming ruler of Newfoundland and staging a secession from Canada. Back in the real world, Faustus' boss Robert Joy plans to indoctrinate the citizenry of Newfoundland with a cultish geometri... Read allFaustus is a clerk in the St. Johns, Newfoundland department of education. He dreams of becoming ruler of Newfoundland and staging a secession from Canada. Back in the real world, Faustus' boss Robert Joy plans to indoctrinate the citizenry of Newfoundland with a cultish geometric theory known as Total Education, but Joy may be foiled at any minute by the revelation o... Read all

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7.3/10

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ach24

Crammed with gags, ideas, and freewheeling experiments in form,

Faustus Bidgood chronicles the final days in the office of the obsequious little bureaucrat of the title (played with winning numbness by Andy Jones) who, after a decidedly lachrymose revolution, becomes the first ruler of the People's Republic of Newfoundland. Possessed of a profound guilt and a pornographic imagination, Faustus walks through life like a shell-shocked Milquetoast, his febrile imagination constantly slipping between then and now, here and there, reason and nuttiness. Possessed of the formal energy of early Godard and the comic daring of Monty Python, Faustus Bidgood is an unprecedented event in English Canadian cinema'

7therskybznuiss

Interesting, funny and unique, a guranteed Newfoundland good-time.

I love Codco and love the Andy Jones. The Andy Jone is one of the better member of The Codco and the Faustus Bidgood brings us on the cereberal journey through 'the time' and sure is it the good time?

Yes it is 'the good time' and there are appearance from everyone to Mary Walsh, to The Mary Walsh

The Cathy Jones is even the in this and The Mary Welsh even show up! Thank.