Biography: Eric Idle |
The "matinee idol" of the motley Monty Python crew, Eric Idle attended Cambridge University, where he served as president of the Footlights Revue. Idle's fellow college troupers included future Pythonites John Cleese and Graham Chapman. After getting... more
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Tags: Comedy Thriller Comedy
Length: 92min
In this comedy thriller two dopey pals try to solve a puzzling riddle. If they succeed, one of them will inherit a valuable artifact, an object desired by a number of suspicious characters willing to do just about anything to obtain it. ~ Sandra...
Tags: Religious Comedy Comedy Farce Slapstick
Length: 95min
Eric Idle and Robbie Coltrane team up for this bad boy comic burlesque, directed by Jonathan Lynn. Idle and Coltrane play Brian Hope and Charlie McManus, a pair of two-bit hoods who want to go straight, repulsed by the increasing reliance on guns and...
Cast: Robert Downey, Jr.
Tags: Farce Comedy Drama
Length: 97min
In this riotous British satire, a conniving Catholic priest convinces a dying tycoon into writing the church into his will by having him add the following proviso: the tycoon's children will only inherit the fortune if one of them can produce an heir...
Tags: Musical Comedy Operetta Comedy Musical
Length: 131min
This adaptation of the Gilbert & Sullivan opera is set in England during the depression. ~ All Movie Guide
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1989)
Cast: Robin Williams Uma Thurman Terry Gilliam Sarah Polley Sting Jonathan Pryce Oliver Reed Eric Idle
Tags: Costume Adventure Fantasy Adventure Fantasy
Length: 127min
Director Terry Gilliam adroitly applies his Monty Python sensibilities upon the "career" of famed German prevaricator Baron von Munchausen. Played herein by John Neville, the baron is seen quelling a war that he himself started, flying into the...
National Lampoon's European Vacation (1985)
Cast: Amy Heckerling John Hughes
Tags: Comedy Parody/Spoof Slapstick
Length: 100min
Despite the many adventures they suffered in National Lampoon's Vacation, the Griswold family decides to take another crack at having fun. This time, the doltish clan heads across the Atlantic for a whirlwind vacation after winning a game show. Will...
Cast: James Mason Tommy Chong Peter Boyle John Cleese
Tags: Comedy Farce Parody/Spoof Adventure Comedy
Length: 97min
This colorful spoof of pirate movies had all the makings of a classic farce and yet sank straight to Davy Jones' locker at the box-office, for despite it's all-star international cast of famous comedians, and despite the fact that it was largely...
The Transformers: The Movie (1986)
Cast: Orson Welles Leonard Nimoy Robert Stack
Tags: Science Fiction Action Space Adventure Sci-Fi Action
Length: 86min
In this theatrically released chapter of the 1984-1987 syndicated animated series, the struggle between the heroic Autobots and evil Decepticons is taken twenty years into the future as both sides must deal with a world-devouring being called Unicron...
Tags: Absurd Comedy Religious Comedy Comedy Parody/Spoof
Length: 93min
On a midnight clear 2,000 years ago, three wise men enter a manger where a babe is wrapped in swaddling clothes. It is an infant called Brian...and the three wise men are in the wrong manger. For the rest of his life, Brian (Graham Chapman) finds...
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983)
Cast: Terry Jones
Tags: Farce Satire Parody/Spoof Gross-Out Comedy Absurd Comedy Comedy
Length: 107min
The Meaning of Life is without a doubt the most tasteless of the Monty Python feature films; it also happens to be one of the funniest. Life's questions are "answered" in a series of outrageous vignettes, beginning with a pre-credits sequence at a...
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