Blame It on the Bellboy (1992)
Directed by Mark Herman
Genres - Comedy |
Sub-Genres - Comedy of Errors, Farce |
Release Date - Mar 6, 1992 (USA) |
Run Time - 80 min. |
Countries - United Kingdom, United States |
MPAA Rating - PG13
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson
Brevity may be the soul of wit, but that doesn't make the 79-minute Blame It on the Bellboy any funnier. Orton (Dudley Moore) is an ambitious real estate agent. Horton (Richard Griffiths) is a middle-aged married man looking for extracurricular activity via a dating service. And Lawton (Bryan Brown) is a professional hit man. Orton, Horton and Lawton all check into adjoining rooms at a posh Venetian hotel. Bellboy Bronson Pinchot, whose grasp of the English language is virtually nonexistent, delivers the wrong messages to the three men. That's why Orton is trying to sell a valuable piece of property to a roomful of mafiosi, Horton is "paired up" with an unwitting female real estate broker, and Lawton is preparing to rub out a hapless dating-service subscriber......Written by director Mark Herman, this old-style doorslamming farce might have passed muster as a dinner-theater attraction, but on film it comes across as strained and tiresome.
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assassination, blackmail, mob-boss, on-the-run, bellhop, hitman, mistaken-identity, motel, role-switching