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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780779256617
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 0779256611
Label: Bfs Entertainment
Manufacturer: Bfs Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Bfs Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 23, 2004
Running Time: 120 minutes
Sales Rank: 118530
Studio: Bfs Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: January 05, 1991
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - "Breaking News"
This 1987 TV version is largely faithful to Evelyn Waugh's acerbic novel, a sendup of journalism's hapless, competitive reporters on foreign assignment, the assorted power brokers domestic and foreign essential for their journalistic success, and finally the absurd revolutionaries in third world hellholes. who supply the content inquiring minds back home are eager to read about through "scoops."
As the central character William Boot, an initially ineffectual reporter on British countryside ... Read More
Rating:  - Failed black comedy
This is a black comedy that doesn't make it. The director thought it enough to hire big-name English actors and have them do droll cameos, but he neglected to make sure that the over-all production was amusing. It isn't. After an hour of being unable to produce a smile, the film just lumbers on and viewers will be wise to look elsewhere for entertainment. A big-budget flop.
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