Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #20920 in VHS
• Released on: 2001-04-03
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Formats: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of tapes: 1
• Running time: 109 minutes

Customer Reviews

Firth and O'Toole Are Worthy Adversaries
I'm a huge Colin Firth fan and love Peter O'Toole as well. This film has a really original idea. Firth and O'Toole are both sent to a hotel in a place in the After Life that looks like the Riviera. You are allowed to stay there as long as you remain famous back on earth. Firth is famous for murdering O'Toole and O'Toole is exactly what he is in real life: a famous actor. There are no other souls who can check into this hotel besides the famous. The joke, of course, becomes that what do all of these self-centered, self-obsessed people do when there is no one else around to prop them up? There are no hangers-on or spouses in this place! You see a little bit of everyone here: artists, inventors, musicians, poets, shrinks and even Nazis from the past. It is really funny to see them deal with losing their fame. I really enjoyed the film and the writer certainly had an excellent sense of the surreal and absurd. My one complaint is that it is basically a one note, one joke movie and you may start tiring of it once you thoroughly are into its concept.

A comedy about death that works.
Peter O'toole & Colin Firth work wonderfully together as a famous movie star and his murderer who go to a hotel that COULD be the afterlife OR a "waiting room" to above or below. When Firth gets a 2nd chance at life, he reluctantly takes O'toole with him. The ending is surprisingly touching. Each character learns something about himself, and each seems to get exactly what he deserves. Excellent acting -- especially by Colin Firth.

Very strange and interesting premise,well acted.
This movie deals with one of the possibilities of what happens after one dies. Colin Firth and Peter O'Toole, as murderer and famous actor, respectively, are linked forever in the "Hotel of the Rich and Famous". The price one is willing to pay for one's actions, including fame, seems to be the point of this film. I really enjoyed this movie. I thought it was well acted and very funny in parts. It seems on the brink of answering in part the "why are we here" question without giving any answers. I came across this movie via my girlfriend, who is a confirmed "Firth-a-holic". There is a lovely French actress in this movie whose name escapes me...so there.