Bert Rigby, You're a Fool (1989)
Directed by Carl Reiner
Genres - Musical |
Sub-Genres - Americana, Showbiz Comedy |
Release Date - Feb 24, 1989 (USA) |
Run Time - 94 min. |
Countries - United States |
MPAA Rating - R
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson
Tony award-winning British musical comedy star Robert Lindsay makes his first important American film appearance in Bert Rigby, You're a Fool. Lindsay, of course, plays the title character, a coal miner who dreams of becoming a big showbiz star. Only problem is, there's very little demand for Bert Rigby's impersonations of Buster Keaton and Gene Kelly. Undaunted, Bert heads to Hollywood, where, while working as a butler in the household of movie mogul Jim Shirley (Corbin Bernsen), he must fend off the advances of Shirley's hot-to-trot wife, Meredith (Anne Bancroft). Befitting the old-fashioned nature of Bert Rigby's behavior and tastes in entertainment, director Carl Reiner adopts a "retro" approach to his material; at times, the film looks as though it was made in 1939 rather than 1989, despite its R-rated sex, profanity, and body-function jokes.
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butler, coal-miner, impersonation, show-business, celebrity, wife