By all accounts hilarious onstage, Michael Frayn's backstage farce receives a less-than-brilliant screen translation in NOISES OFF, a Touchstone production which boasts three terrific comic set-pieces with nothing to support them.
What plot there is roughly revolves around the production of a door-slamming bedroom stage farce whose chief attraction seems to be Nicollette Sheridan (TV's "Knots Landing") as a sexy blonde ingenue who spends most of the play scampering around in her brief, frilly underwear. With six months on
the road to iron out the bugs before the show is scheduled to reach Broadway, director Lloyd Fellowes (Michael Caine) instead is horrified to ...
Released:
1992
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
104 mins