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Deadly Advice

1993, Movie, R, 91 mins

Deadly Advice: Review

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No doubt this English black comedy about a mousy woman who murders her mother, sister, and her sister’s boyfriend was intended to be charming, and just awfully funny, in the venerable tradition of KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS (1949) or THE LADYKILLERS (1955), classic black comedies starring Alec Guinness. Instead, this tawdry little story about one Jodie Greenwood (Jane Horrocks, perhaps best known to US audience as the dimwitted Bubble of Absolutely Fabulous) is depressing, and even worse, dull. It takes forever for the story to get underway, and once it does, we’re inside the mind of someone who’s been abused by her horrible mother. Imagine Sally Field’s SYBIL (1976), but with an axe. Now imagine it played for laughs. Where’s the comedy in that? With the exception of her dreadful mother (Brenda Fricker), the people Jodie kills seems to have committed no crimes except harboing small and simple dreams. The film is a must-avoid, even though it stars such excellent character actors as Horrocks, Imelda Stanton as her sister Iris, and Jonathan Pryce as kindly doctor Ted Philips. Those wishing to see something a bit grim but all the same hilarious would be best served by checking out KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS. Plenty of people are slaughtered, but somehow we don’t mind it at all. leave a comment --Meakin Armstrong
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