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Lucky Jim

  • TV Movie
  • 2003
  • 1h 44m
IMDb RATING
7.2/10
216
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Stephen Tompkinson in Lucky Jim (2003)
ComedyDramaRomance

Jim Dixon feels anything but lucky. At the university he has to do the bidding of absent-minded and boring Professor Welch to have any hope of keeping his job. Worse, he has managed to get e... Read allJim Dixon feels anything but lucky. At the university he has to do the bidding of absent-minded and boring Professor Welch to have any hope of keeping his job. Worse, he has managed to get entangled with unexciting but neurotic Margaret Peel, a friend of the Professor's. All-in-a... Read allJim Dixon feels anything but lucky. At the university he has to do the bidding of absent-minded and boring Professor Welch to have any hope of keeping his job. Worse, he has managed to get entangled with unexciting but neurotic Margaret Peel, a friend of the Professor's. All-in-all, the pub is the only friendly place to be. His misery is completed at a dreadful weeken... Read all

  • Director
    • Robin Sheppard
  • Writers
    • Kingsley Amis
    • Jack Rosenthal
  • Stars
    • Stephen Tompkinson
    • Robert Hardy
    • David Ryall
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.2/10
    216
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Robin Sheppard
    • Writers
      • Kingsley Amis
      • Jack Rosenthal
    • Stars
      • Stephen Tompkinson
      • Robert Hardy
      • David Ryall
    • 8User reviews
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    Stephen Tompkinson
    Stephen Tompkinson
    • Jim Dixon
    Robert Hardy
    Robert Hardy
    • Professor Neddy Welch
    David Ryall
    David Ryall
    • Stanley
    Helen McCrory
    Helen McCrory
    • Margaret Peel
    Anthony Calf
    Anthony Calf
    • Cecil Goldsmith
    Hugh Parker
    • Alfred Beesley
    Robert Wilfort
    • Evan Johns
    Tim Wylton
    Tim Wylton
    • Mr. Wilson
    Ursula Jones
    • Mrs. Cutler
    Penelope Wilton
    Penelope Wilton
    • Celia Welch
    Stephen Mangan
    Stephen Mangan
    • Bertrand Welch
    Keeley Hawes
    Keeley Hawes
    • Christine Callaghan
    Hermione Norris
    Hermione Norris
    • Carol Goldsmith
    Anthony Smee
    • Mr. Pringle
    Denis Lawson
    Denis Lawson
    • Julius Gore-Urqhart
    Ian Lindsay
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    • Director
      • Robin Sheppard
    • Writers
      • Kingsley Amis
      • Jack Rosenthal
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    5daodao

    Could do with a different leading man

    Unlike other reviewers, I haven't read the Kingsley Amis book that provides the basis for this movie. Therefore, I can't comment on whether Tompkinson fits the character drawn in the book. However, I would say that what I felt was a major weakness of this movie is that I couldn't find myself empathising with Tompkinson's character - I didn't want him to get the girl or keep his job, because he didn't come across as someone you wished well. His character was not particularly likeable - especially in the scene where he was drunk at the professor's house, where he came accross as obnoxious. His speech was more painful that funny to watch, though that may have been the point. I think a lead actor slightly less wooden may have created more empathy. Helen McCrory is very good, and Robert Hardy is always good to watch.
    keystone_cop17

    Don't be so picky. It was a nice film.

    I happened to enjoy this film adaptation of the novel "Lucky Jim". I thought that the performances were of a fine nature and, unlike another one of these fine reviewers, I was rooting for Jim to get the girl. He's the underdog, and indeed looks the part. I think it was an appropriate casting choice. Now, I have not read the book, and I probably never will, however I know when I see an entertaining film. It is not breathtakingly brilliant or life changing, sure, but everything can't be. I was very much taken with the story, and felt that I could empathize with Jim immensely. I also enjoyed the use of the song "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" in it's various forms. Overall a good production, I would recommend it those seeking my recommendation. I give it three out of four stars.
    1AlanJ2

    They don't get much worse than this. Crass, dull, superficial adaptation of a novel that could have made a good TV comedy.

    Very dull, laborious adaptation of Amis's amusing satire. The hero is portrayed not as a likeable loser but a merely oafish cretin. Most of the rest are pure caricatures with only Helen McCrory putting in real quality and providing something of the novel's wit. The period setting is camped up as if it were the 1920s, not the post-war period of horror comics and rock'n' roll. A real dud even by the standards of bad UK TV.
    612-string

    OK but that's about all

    Bland TVM version of the classic Kingsley Amis novel is no substitute for reading the book. Cast are appealing though mostly n/k in the USA, and 50s atmosphere fair enough if you weren't there, but it's just not funny enough. Dixon's "Merrie England" speech plays particularly flat here and was of course the high point of the novel. The backstory is also handled much more fluidly in the novel than in Jack Rosenthal's teleplay. Where are all of Dixon's imitations? And what about his article? The romance story gets virtually all the screen time here, making this just another Masterpiece Theater specimen of BMG in period duds. Helen McCrory does quite well, considering the script, as psycho gf Margaret but the Welches are missing that mix of asininity and menace that Amis captured on paper.

    Do yourself a favor. Skip the movie and read the book. It hasn't aged a bit in 50 years and you'll thank me when you finally put it down.
    9barry-106

    However many stars you allow, I give it one more!

    I approached this TV film with distrust: TV is not usually very good at re-creating 1950s Britain, and I have to admit a prejudice when I say I think only the BBC can do it well. But this one was spot on. Of course, it comes from a first-class comic novel, and Jack Rosenthal's adaptation was as good as anything he has done. Stephen Tompkinson was outstanding as the very first of the 'angry young men' of the 50s. One other reviewer said he/she didn't empathise with the character and that he was wooden: what I believe he re-created to perfection was the 'square peg' syndrome of a young socialist, working-class Northerner at university in England in the 1950s. Tompkinson is an actor in a classic British tradition. Helen McCrory also gave the most delightful performance I have seen on the screen in ages. Much credit, too, to the designers, who re-created the period perfectly, even down to the poster for the dance, an affectionate echo of the Festival of Britain in that same year. A superb production that I wish I could get on DVD.

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    • Release date
      • April 11, 2003 (United Kingdom)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Jim
    • Filming locations
      • The Royal Masonic School, Bushey, Hertfordshire, England, UK
    • Production company
      • Working Title Television
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 44m(104 min)
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Stereo
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.33 : 1

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