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Didn't You Kill My Brother? (1987)

Director: Bob Spiers

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From Time Out Film Guide

Comic Strip's radical remake of Bicycle Thieves has Alexei Sayle as twins: Sterling Moss is bad and ignorant, Carl Moss is good and prison-educated. Carl makes bikes with the help of a gang of dole-ites; Sterling, with their help, nicks them. Their murder-mad mum (Beryl Reid, as wonderful as ever: 'You should always put a dead badger on a head wound...') encourages the sibling rivalry with lethal results. Sayle's 'satirical' script takes social awareness to new shallows: the charges of a horribly realistic social worker are called Laura and Ashley. You'll laugh.

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Time Out Film Guide

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  • Andrej said...
    Posted on Nov 23 2007 19:38 A gem among the UK comedy.Something that British don't do any more since they become Americans(last 10 years).Excellent fun,parody, applicable to today's British society.Young British,caution: this film is not politicaly correct - it tells the truth;There was a liberty and freedom in the UK.Would you blieve it? They were actually able/let to film this kind of films?!Can you believe that?
    Educate yourseves.Imperative to see!
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Cast & crew

Director: Bob Spiers

Cast: Alexei Sayle, Beryl Reid, Graham Crowden, Pauline Melville, Peter Richardson, David Stafford full cast

Genre(s): Comedy

Duration: 52 mins


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