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La pire semaine de ma vie

Original title: The Worst Week of My Life
  • TV Series
  • 2004–2006
  • 29m
IMDb RATING
7.9/10
2.1K
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Sarah Alexander and Ben Miller in La pire semaine de ma vie (2004)
SitcomComedy

Mel and Howard's wedding is one week away. Howard experiences a series of humiliating disasters in the week leading up to the ceremony.Mel and Howard's wedding is one week away. Howard experiences a series of humiliating disasters in the week leading up to the ceremony.Mel and Howard's wedding is one week away. Howard experiences a series of humiliating disasters in the week leading up to the ceremony.

  • Creators
    • Mark Bussell
    • Justin Sbresni
  • Stars
    • Ben Miller
    • Sarah Alexander
    • Alison Steadman
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.9/10
    2.1K
    YOUR RATING
    • Creators
      • Mark Bussell
      • Justin Sbresni
    • Stars
      • Ben Miller
      • Sarah Alexander
      • Alison Steadman
    • 19User reviews
    • 3Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award
      • 1 nomination total

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    Ben Miller
    Ben Miller
    • Howard Steel
    • 2004–2006
    Sarah Alexander
    Sarah Alexander
    • Mel Steel…
    • 2004–2006
    Alison Steadman
    Alison Steadman
    • Angela Cook
    • 2004–2006
    Geoffrey Whitehead
    Geoffrey Whitehead
    • Dick Cook
    • 2004–2006
    Janine Duvitski
    Janine Duvitski
    • Eve
    • 2004–2006
    Ronald Pickup
    Ronald Pickup
    • Fraser
    • 2004–2006
    Raquel Cassidy
    Raquel Cassidy
    • Cassie
    • 2004
    Emma Pierson
    Emma Pierson
    • Sophie Cook
    • 2004
    John Benfield
    John Benfield
    • Ron
    • 2004–2005
    Dean Lennox Kelly
    Dean Lennox Kelly
    • Dom
    • 2004
    Hazel Douglas
    Hazel Douglas
    • Granny Cook
    • 2004
    Sian Thomas
    Sian Thomas
    • Nicola
    • 2005–2006
    Terrence Hardiman
    Terrence Hardiman
    • Gerard
    • 2005
    Lizzie Roper
    Lizzie Roper
    • Trish
    • 2004
    Paul Brooke
    Paul Brooke
    • Vicar
    • 2004–2006
    Kim Wall
    Kim Wall
    • Mitch
    • 2006
    Tom Goodman-Hill
    Tom Goodman-Hill
    • Ben
    • 2004
    Anna Massey
    Anna Massey
    • Aunt Yvonne
    • 2005
    • Creators
      • Mark Bussell
      • Justin Sbresni
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    8Sleepin_Dragon

    Super funny.

    Three genuinely wonderful, and funny series of this underrated, and slightly forgotten gem.

    Each series focuses on a week in the life of Howard and Mel, from their wedding to Christmas.

    There are plenty of belly laughs for you to enjoy, the very first, and second episodes I would argue are the best of the lot in my opinion, and contain moments that are quite literally aide splitting, poor Binky.

    Everyone involved is first class, I cannot help but ball laughing every time Dick and Angela appear, they are incredibly funny. Lee Mack quite literally took the character of Dick, renamed him Geoffrey, and placed him into Not Going out.

    It's slapstick, it's silly, it's a bit daft, but it is genuinely funny throughout, I just wish we had more of Cassie.

    Love it, 8/10.
    smartarsebutler

    Derivative but strangely refreshing

    Okay, so you could almost describe it as Britain's answer to 'Meet the Parents', but that is doing this fantastic sitcom a huge disservice. Ben Miller and Sarah Alexander do a fantastic job as an uptight, very much in love and very middle class couple, desperate to get through their pre-wedding week, and the casting of Alison Steadman as the hysterical perfectionist seating plan obsessed mother is a masterstroke. The comedy is constantly farcical and slapstick, but without becoming gross-out (i.e.Farrelly brothers). Do not let claims of tired ideas being rehashed put you off this fantastic britcom, because yes, the basis of the sitcom has been visited a few times before, but this is a fresh take, and the result is an invigorating and exciting exercise in programming. Highly recommended!
    9kgrbabe

    Laughed more than usual

    I'm a hard person to get to laugh at any show. I don't know if it was just stupid enough, or actually funny. How can anyone be as clumsy and accident prone? It's good for a laugh, if you need it.
    AJ420

    Brilliant!

    Take Meet The Parents, turn it into a series, add a obsessed lover, add more humour and a dog in cement mixer and what do you get? You get one of the funniest series ever. I only happen to come across the series when i was just sorting my work out and the t.v was running. After i was just hooked on watching it.

    It is terrific stuff! Series like these should be made more often though not out and out copies.

    Ben Miller is top-class as groom-to-be. Ben Stiller had his moments in Meet The Parents but Miller easily can give him a run for his money. Top Stuff.

    My grief that i missed the first episode of it. However, this is still without doubt a much watch for any comedy lover.
    7trimmerb1234

    Remember never to carry a baby's rattle in your pocket

    I'd not seen the series at the time of its transmission and only caught it by accident 10 years later.

    Like many I greatly admire Alison Steadman, here though she doesn't an opportunity for the grand grotesques with which she has graced the large and small screens, and on radio (in the form of the very obliging Mrs Naughtie). Here she is well meaning, motherly and tolerant of her sour, sarcastic and humourless husband - played by an actor who has honed this type of role to withering perfection - Geoffrey Whitehead.

    Lovely comic actress Sarah Alexander once again plays to her strengths.

    The format and some of the laughs are quite familiar - faux pas and foul-ups committed by new husband and soon to be new father played by Ben Miller. One comic situation was unfamiliar - in warmly hugging his mother in law to comfort her, a baby's rattle comes between them. Of all the nightmare misunderstandings, this must rate as one of the worst. So unspeakable that quite believably the Alison Steadman character runs away and locks herself in her bedroom - preventing her from hearing the innocent explanation until some while later. Had this been a big screen version, the Geoffrey Whitehead character would have reacted. This TV production would have benefited from some honing.

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    • Trivia
      Sophie Cook (Emma Pierson), Mel's troublesome sister, did not return in Series 2 and there was no explanation to her absence. But it was revealed in Series 3 The Worst Christmas of My Life: Part 3 (2006), that she had moved to New Zealand.
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      Remade as Worst Week of My Life (2006)

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    • Release date
      • March 12, 2004 (United Kingdom)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • The Worst Week of My Life
    • Production company
      • Hat Trick Productions
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      • 29m
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Stereo
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.78 : 1

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