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Charlie Bubbles (1967)

Comedy | 89 minutes
2,36 11 votes

Genre: Comedy / Drama

Duration: 89 minuten

Country: United Kingdom

Directed by: Albert Finney

Stars: Albert Finney, Colin Blakely and Liza Minnelli

IMDb score: 6,3 (921)

Releasedate: 11 February 1968

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Charlie Bubbles plot

"If You Think You're Old Enough"

Charlie Bubbles is a writer who worked his way up from the working class of Manchester and who has become rich and famous earlier than usual. He has actually failed to properly apply an important premise of an author, namely the ability to feel and respond appropriately. Now he has to visit his estranged wife and son for whom he has set up a farm somewhere outside his hometown. His journey ensures - without actually wanting to - that he reconnects with life, people and his own history.

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It's a pity that Albert Finney never wanted to or was able to direct another film, because I can't tell from the pleasure and skill with which Charlie Bubbles was made that this is the debut film of an actor in the director's chair. The film starts satirically, with Colin Blakely (very convincingly acting drunk) and Finney who hardly know what to do with their, sorry, Finney's money, and all those CCTV screens give a nice insight into Finney's oppressive world, but when he returns to his home town the tone becomes increasingly sombre and in any case less funny, and the visit with his son to a football match and the aftermath form an emotional low point. Only that ending... a bit of a letdown, a "cop-out" as the English say. Furthermore, wonderful roles by Finney and Billie Whitelaw, an actress I know mainly as a personal favorite of Samuel Beckett, but who has also built an impressive career of more than half a century on the silver screen (including the nanny from Hell in the original The Omen). And boy, what a handsome devil the young Albert Finney was (and a great actor, but he remained one his whole life – five Oscar nominations, but none cashed in). This film is highly recommended. Currently available in an excellent transfer (but unfortunately without official subtitles) on YouTube.

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