Sam Neill is about to kill himself by jumping off a bridge. He is distracted by rescuing Helena Bonham Carter, who is also trying to kill herself. They talk things over and they decide they don't want death, but revenge. They agree to take out the people who drove the other to suicide, reasoning that....
Well it's Strangers on a Train as a British comedy, written for the stage by Alan Ayckbourn. The aristocratic Miss Carter has no troubling ruining Neill's enemies, but he finds his aristocratic targets to be impossible to snare.
It's all quite droll in a mordant fashion, but I found that in opening up the show for the movie screen, director-screenwriter Malcolm Mowbray has lost a good deal of the rapid pacing and snap that a good stage farce requires. Too much time is spent focusing on Neill's confused face, and an amusing turn by Rupert Graves as Miss Carter's brother seems to be rather pointless. Too bad. With Kristin Scott Thomas, Martin Clunes and Steve Coogan.
Well it's Strangers on a Train as a British comedy, written for the stage by Alan Ayckbourn. The aristocratic Miss Carter has no troubling ruining Neill's enemies, but he finds his aristocratic targets to be impossible to snare.
It's all quite droll in a mordant fashion, but I found that in opening up the show for the movie screen, director-screenwriter Malcolm Mowbray has lost a good deal of the rapid pacing and snap that a good stage farce requires. Too much time is spent focusing on Neill's confused face, and an amusing turn by Rupert Graves as Miss Carter's brother seems to be rather pointless. Too bad. With Kristin Scott Thomas, Martin Clunes and Steve Coogan.