It Couldn't Happen Here
Time Out says
At a tawdry English seaside resort, mummy's boy Tennant, winsome and sad-eyed in full evening dress, surveys the scene: a ranting blind priest (Ackland) stumbles across shingle trailed by a troop of schoolboys; nuns in suspenders and kinky boots gambol in the shallows; at a funfair drug addicts, gorging fat ladies and perverts whizz past on the big wheel; and Tennant sings that everything he's ever done is a sin. Meanwhile Tennant's pop group sidekick Lowe breaks free of a garish boarding-house where Barbara Windsor is serving mountainous breakfasts. Director Bond's attempt at a narrative stringing together of the Pet Shop Boys' pop themes is witless, aimless and pretentious. If this sickbag of kitsch communicates anything it's the anguish of a young aesthete on discovering that flying ducks still adorn the walls of his mother's house.
Details
Release details
Duration:
86 mins
Cast and crew
Director:
Jack Bond
Screenwriter:
James Dillon, Jack Bond
Cast:
Carmen Du Sautoy
Chris Lowe
Neil Dickson
Joss Ackland
Gareth Hunt
Dominique Barnes
Barbara Windsor
Neil Tennant
Chris Lowe
Neil Dickson
Joss Ackland
Gareth Hunt
Dominique Barnes
Barbara Windsor
Neil Tennant