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A Bunch of Amateurs (2008)
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2009 (USA)
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They wished for a star, then wished they hadn't.
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A sleazy Hollywood agent tricks one of his clients, a faded action star, into playing King Lear in an amateur charity production in England. | add synopsis
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Midsomer murders without a body~
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Burt Reynolds | ... | Jefferson Steel |
 | Alexandra Weaver | ... | Girl on Motorbike |
 | Elesia Ennis | ... | 1st Cinema Girl |
| Sarah Goldberg | ... | 2nd Cinema Girl |
| Glynis Brooks | ... | Woman In Street |
 | Camilla Arfwedson | ... | Amanda Blacke |
| Michael Wildman | ... | Mr. Darcy |
| Guy Flanagan | ... | Box Office Guy |
| John Moraitis | ... | Man In Theatre |
| Pat Starr | ... | Woman In Theatre |
 | Maisie Scott | ... | Young Amanda |
 | Charles Durning | ... | Charlie Rosenberg |
| Pandora Colin | ... | Nadine |
 | Lucy Akhurst | ... | Stewardess |
| Stephen Gressieux | ... | Italian Tourist (as Stefano Gressieux) |
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Burt Reynolds reportedly had significant difficulty learning his lines (especially the Shakespeare) throughout shooting. A number of the scenes from Lear needed idiot boards in the wings, though despite this Reynolds was less than accurate much of the time. Imelda Staunton on more than one occasion made her frustration with this quite vocally known, and some of the lines used in the film differ quite greatly from the original play-scripts.
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My wife hit it on the head by saying it was really a TV film and like Midsomer Murders without the Murders!
That's all I really wanted to say except that the performances were generally good and Burt Reynolds wig was excellent and looked almost real. I'm now trying to make this up to ten lines but don't really have that much to say and wish that short, pertinent comments were allowed. Oh I've just remembered that Suffolk suddenly had hills, moved presumably from the Isle of Man so that the film had a tax subsidy. I'm really struggling now to say anything else but I would like these comments to be seen by filmgoers. Phew