Evengyny Thanks for the memories!

Arianna Moses Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Marva It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Winifred The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

bootlebarth Cambridge University is one of the best in the world. Some of its alumni show off in the Footlights and later drift into show business: Stephen Fry, Emma Thompson, Hugh Laurie, Tony Slattery, etc.They make shows and films that might be of intense interest to their narcissistic selves, often showing their true colours while pretending them to be comic, satiric, or whatever.Peter (Stephen Fry) is - yawn - rich, thanks to his recently deceased father. He invites a small group of old chums, and their partners, to his pile for a New Year party. All are semi-nutters, including some out of touch for four years. None are even slightly interesting.The so-called humour is laboured. Only the most easily pleased viewer will crack the faintest of smiles in nearly two hours.Naturally there are complications. Friend Sarah, a token pigmented person with a disastrous romantic history, has bonked two of the small party in the past, including presently celibate, formerly bisexual and - shock late announcement - HIV positive Peter. Her latest amour is an impossible character played horribly by Tony Slattery, for which he deserves a Golden Raspberry award.The supposedly intelligent and successful people of Peter's Friends are wholly incapable of leading ordered lives. Is this really how Fry, Branagh and company see themselves? The only sympathetic character is Vera the housekeeper, who announces her departure towards the end - but not before some absurd scenes involving her wood-chopping son, including a chatting-up by Sarah and a woman-on-top bonk with Emma Thompson.Branagh's representation of a drunk was certainly not a performance that contributed to his later knighthood.Peter's Friends is a film, full of luvvies pretending to poke fun at themselves, but obviously without believing a word of it, and hoping to earn enough from it to keep them in the style they think their superior intelligence deserves. Awful.

Maddyclassicfilms Peter's Friends is directed by Kenneth Branagh. The film stars Stephen Fry, Kenneth, Branagh, Imelda Staunton,Alphonsia Emmanuel,Hugh Laurie,Emma Thompson,Phyllida Law, Tony Slattery and Rita Rudner.A group of university friends come together again after several years apart, when they are invited to a New Year Eve party at the home of Peter(Stephen Fry).Andrew (Kenneth Branagh)brings his actress wife Carol(Rita Rudner),the pair are drifting apart but don't seem to want to acknowledge that fact.Roger and Mary(Hugh Laurie and Imelda Staunton)have married and have suffered the recent tragedy of the death of one of their twins, Mary is now constantly worried about the other one and can never relax because she is convinced something bad will happen him.Funny,sex crazed Sarah(Alphonsia Emmanuel)brings her boyfriend Brian(Tony Slattery). There's also the shy and awkward Maggie (Emma Thompson)who's struggling with her romantic feelings for Peter.Over delicious food the gang realise they never want to lose touch again, especially when Peter reveals some devastating news about himself.It's easy to see why some people refer to this as a British Big Chill but unlike that film this one has some weaknesses. Many of these characters seem very self centred, particularly Andrew and Branagh spoils the pivotal revelation scene near the end with his over the top cringe inducing drunken crying. This should have been a deeply moving scene(it is up until Andrew cries)but Branagh went so over the top that it becomes laughable and it shouldn't be.It has it's moments though and has a fantastic soundtrack. It also always gives me a craving for a roast dinner. An enjoyable film about friendship and love, funny and touching this is one to watch.

FlashCallahan Seven friends from an acting troupe graduate from Cambridge University in 1982 and go their separate ways. Ten years later, Peter inherits a large estate from his father, and invites the rest of the gang to spend New Year's holiday with him. Many changes have taken place in the lives of all the friends assembled, but Peter has a secret to tell......Luvvie Alert!!!!!!!!!Depending on your age and your appreciation of British TV in the late eighties and early nineties will swerve on your opinion of this film.Basically, if you like A Bit Of Fry And Laurie, Blackadder, Who's Line Is It Anyway, The Tall Guy, and any Sitcom that featured a middle class family, person, or Business,methane this is the movie for you.If you said no to the above, then you mat find this a little bit snobby, and a little bit too smug for its own good. In fact, it should have been called Kenneth's Friends, because the film could almost be a metaphorical fly on the wall documentary about our favourite British actors.But it's comfort food for fans, just to see the actors enjoying themselves and bouncing off one another. After not seeing it for so many years, it's surprising as just to how somber the film is at times.As well as the film subliminally congratulating the stars for their input into the British Arts, it deals with infidelity, morbidity, loss, age, and self realisation, and it deals with them marvellously.The cast, as you'd expect, are wondrous, and the chemistry in the film is perfect. My only qualm with the film is that whilst it deals with life changing issues delicately with three of the characters, the other characters problems seem simply trivial compared to those. So while the loss of a child is treated as you'd expect it to be treated, suicide is joked about early on and cast aside.But all in all, it's a fun love in for all concerned, but it's definitely an acquired taste.I can't wait for the directors cut that has Alan Rickman turn up late, with a silly story and a slight problem.

slaintemhath As this was broadcast last night I wanted to take in how it was considered here and was saddened to see that it actually has a respectable score.The talent of the cast as individuals is undeniable, the sets, locations and most of the writing well above par, but somehow the whole becomes less that sum of its parts, congealing like some ghastly precursor to The Office. Every second scene had me gripping at the couch arms cringing in shamed embarrassment for the actors involved as they tried to lay credence to their characters situation under Branagh's direction. This is an even more remarkable achievement when you consider that the roles most actors play are vaguely autobiographical. These slices of docu-soap-reality sandwich what appears to be nothing more than music videos for what must be considered by Branagh to be choice cuts from his music library.How the British film industry ever 'recovered' from this bilge is beyond me and I hope we never see it's like again. An utterly hideous, vile, sickening, saccharine pile of steaming luvvie excrement that has now thankfully been relegated to late night viewings accompanied with sign language.