Stella Street

Perhaps if you've been following the British TV serial Stella Street as it's been airing over the past four years in bite-size 10- and 15- minute segments, you might be primed for a feature-length film devoted to the absurd misadventures of the megacelebrities who for some reason now live in a quiet, middle-class London suburb. Then again, think of A NIGHT AT THE ROXBURY and THE LADIES MAN and remember what Saturday Night Live has to teach us about the perils of overinflating sketch comedy: What's funny at five minutes can be tragedy at 90. The basic premise of the original BBC2-TV show is actually quite funny: Stars such as Michael Caine, Al Pacino and...