Plots with a View (2002)
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Duration: 94 minuten
Alternative titles: Undertaking Betty / Plotz with a View
Country:
United Kingdom / United States / Germany
Directed by: Nick Hurran
Stars: Brenda Blethyn, Alfred Molina and Christopher Walken
IMDb score:
6,5 (5.718)
Releasedate: 4 December 2002
Plots with a View plot
"Sometimes finding true love can be the death of you."
Wales funeral director Boris Plotz has been in love with Betty for thirty years, who is sadly married to the mayor. Boris's business is not going well because of an American competitor and Betty is cheated by her husband. The two decide to run off together, but things don't go quite according to plan.
Actors and actresses
Betty Rhys-Jones
Boris Plots
Frank Featherbed
Meredith Mainwaring
Hugh Rhys-Jones
Young Betty
Young Boris
Young Hugh
Dilys Rhys-Jones
Himself
Reviews & comments
Robi
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- 2536 messages
- 2530 votes
The title turns out to be very well chosen when you watch the film. Very lame and corny and actually also very bad. A totally over the top and improbable story that is also rarely very funny. Although the morbid humor has something, but even then it could have been a lot more subtle to be really funny. And subtlety is precisely very hard to find in this film. Oh well, there must be a market for it, but it is clearly not my film. By the way, I see on this page that the DVD of the film is for sale on bol.com for 105 euros (!!). Is that also a corresponding lame joke?
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Collins
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- 7346 messages
- 4343 votes
The film takes the viewer to the small town of Wrottin-Powrys in Wales. An absurd story takes place there in which an important role is reserved for two competing undertakers. One is played by Alfred Molina who is in love with a married woman and comes up with a plan to abduct her and then leave for Haiti together. The other is played by Christopher Walken, who wants to practice a modern entertaining form of funeral.
In between the competing skirmishes, a few characters who are not in the funeral business also scurry around and a few events occur that cause a stir in a different way. A promising setup that results in a rather bland execution. Molina and Walken are generally nice. The rest are not.
A fast-paced series of crazy events. That is perhaps the best way to describe Plots with a View. It is mainly the pace and the many plots that ensure that the film does not bore. The characters also play a part in this. In the film, these are, as mentioned, the two undertakers who are pleasantly colored. The other characters stand out because of their exaggerated character traits that are easily recognizable as good, less good or bad. Not as funny. They fit well into that accumulation of plots that actually have very little substance.
The black humor is fun. The dialogues are occasionally fun. The slapstick is never quite right. And the humor that exploits the absurdity of events and stretches it even further, does provide a few laughs, especially thanks to the contribution of Christopher Walken. Plots with a View is a comedy with a few funny moments. Not a film that stays with you.
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