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What About Dick? (2012)

★ 7.7/10 80 min Comedy United States, United Kingdom English
Writer: Eric Idle
Musicals: Eric Idle, John Du Prez
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“Oscar Wilde on acid,” “like Downton Abbey and almost as funny,” “like E.M Forster on steroids” and “a cross between a budgerigar and an accountant.”

Description

The movie begins with the birth of a sex toy invented in Shagistan in 1898 by Deepak Rushdie Obi Ben Kingsley, and tells the story of the subsequent decline of the British Empire as seen through the eyes of a Piano. The Piano narrates the tale of Dick; his two cousins: Emma, an emotionally stunted English girl; her kleptomaniac sister Helena and their dipsomaniac Aunt Maggie who all live together in a large, rambling, Edwardian novel. When the Reverend Whoopsie discovers a piano on a beach, a plot is set afoot that can be solved only by a private Dick, the incomprehensible Scottish sleuth Inspector McGuffin, who with the aid of Sergeant Ken Russell finally reveals the identity of the Houndsditch Mutilator.

Top Cast

Eddie Izzard
Eddie Izzard Deepak Rushdie Obi Ben Kingsley
Eric Idle
Eric Idle The Piano
Russell Brand
Russell Brand Dick
Jane Leeves
Jane Leeves Emma
Sophie Winkleman
Sophie Winkleman Helena
Tracey Ullman
Tracey Ullman Aunt Maggie
Tim Curry
Tim Curry Reverend Whoopsie
Billy Connolly
Billy Connolly Inspector McGuffin

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