Sunday, 4 May 2014

"Seven utterly fabulous wishes for one piddling, little soul?" - The Devil

Movie no 11
Bedazzled
2000 - imdb (link) 

Hopeless dweeb Elliot Richards is granted 7 wishes by the devil to snare Allison, the girl of his dreams, in exchange for his soul.

Harold Ramis - Director and Screenplay Writer


Cast

Brendan Fraser - Elliot Richards
Elizabeth Hurley - The Devil
Frances O'Connor - Alison Gardner
Orlando Jones - Daniel
Paul Adelstein - Bob
Toby Huss - Jerry
Miriam Shor - Carol

Director - Harold Ramis

Writers - Peter Cook (1967 story & screenplay),  Dudley Moore (1967 screenplay), Larry Gelbart (2000 Screenplay), Peter Tolan (2000 Screenplay) and Harold Ramis (2000 Screenplay)

2000 Trailer



1967 Trailer

10 comments:

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    1. I don't...but the last 18 hours has yielded some surprises, so I'm open.

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    2. How are those hopes holding up?

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  2. Oh yeah, I forgot that Liz Hurley was in this. (Emma might be reading)

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  3. Dudley and Peter the dogs, very neat.

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  4. The teacher outfit is my favourite one

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  5. They've somehow kept the feel of a small 60's movie. Not having seen it, I can imagine that it has a similar feel to the original.

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    1. Apart from the Hurley/Fraser kiss at the beginning...doubt Pete and Dud did that.

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  6. Says a lot that the two biggest laughs were a guy getting hit in the nuts and someone doing the fake 'walking down the stairs'!

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