2.6 /10 1 Votes
Directed by Ray Cooney
John Luton Written by Ray Cooney Initial release 2011 Screenplay Ray Cooney Music director Walter Mair | 2.5/10 IMDb Produced by Vicki Michelle Screenplay by Ray Cooney Directors Ray Cooney, John Luton Budget 900,000 GBP | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Based on Run for Your Wife
by Ray Cooney Starring Danny Dyer
Denise van Outen
Sarah Harding
Neil Morrissey
Ben Cartwright
Nicholas Le Prevost
Kellie Shirley
Christopher Biggins
Lionel Blair
Jeffrey Holland
Derek Griffiths
Louise Michelle
Nick Wilton
Christopher Sweeney Cast Danny Dyer, Sarah Harding, Denise van Outen, Kellie Shirley, Neil Morrissey Similar Danny Dyer movies, Comedies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Run for your wife reviewed by mark kermode
Run for Your Wife is a UK-made 2012 film, based on the theatre farce Run for Your Wife, written by Ray Cooney, who produced and along with John Luton, also directed the film. The executive producer is Vicki Michelle. Upon release the film was savaged by critics and has been referred to as one of the worst films of all time, after it grossed just £602 in its opening weekend at the British box office to its £900,000 budget. It was released on 14 February 2013.
Contents
- Run for your wife reviewed by mark kermode
- Run for your wife film clip
- Plot
- Cast
- Cameo roles alphabetical
- Production
- Reception
- References
Run for your wife film clip
Plot
The story of London cab driver John Smith, with two wives, two lives and a very precise schedule for juggling them both. With one wife at home in Stockwell and another at home in Finsbury.
Trouble brews when Smith intervenes in a mugging. After being hit on the head, he ends up in hospital. This upsets his schedule and causes both wives to report him missing. Smith becomes hopelessly entangled in his attempts with his doltish ne'er-do-well neighbour downstairs in Stockwell, to explain himself to his wives and two suspicious police officers.
Cast
Cameo roles (alphabetical)
Production
Over 80 celebrities agreed to make cameo appearances having all agreed to donate their fees to a theatrical charity.
Reception
Run for Your Wife was met with such overwhelmingly negative reviews upon release that the reviews themselves were widely reported in the UK media. The film was variously described as "a catastrophe", "as funny as leprosy" and "30 years past its sell-by-date", with The Guardian reviewer Peter Bradshaw saying that it "makes The Dick Emery Show look edgy and contemporary". The Independent's Anthony Quinn wrote, "The stage play ran for nine years – it [the film] will be lucky to run for nine days. Perhaps never in the field of light entertainment have so many actors sacrificed so much dignity in the cause of so few jokes... From the look of it, Cooney hasn't been in a cinema for about 30 years". The cameo-heavy cast was commented upon by several reviewers, with the Metro commenting that "no one emerges unscathed among the cameo-packed cast that reads largely like a roll-call for Brit TV legends you'd previously suspected deceased". The Daily Record described the film as "an exasperating farce containing not one single, solitary laugh. Comprised of people losing their trousers and falling over, the film looks like a pilot for a (mercifully) never-commissioned 70s sitcom". An article in the Independent described Run for Your Wife (along with the similarly badly received Movie 43) as contenders for the title of the "worst film in history". The Berkhamsted & Tring Gazette reported "critics have being queuing up to batter recent release Run for Your Wife, with general agreement that it ranks among the worst British comedies of all time". The South African newspaper Daily News stated that "Run for Your Wife could be the worst film in history", the Studio Briefing website reported that "Some writers are making the case that the British comedy Run for Your Wife, written by and starring comedian Ray Cooney, may be “the worst film ever"”, and The Daily Mirror reported (a few months after its release) that Run For Your Wife "was branded the worst British film ever."
Run for Your Wife currently has a 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.